THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



How we keep American Ifence 

 Standard of theWbrld. 



Eighty per cent of all wire fence 

 sold is American Fence. It takes 

 fifty thousand miles of fence every 

 monthtofilltheAmericanfarmers' 

 orders for American Fence. 

 That's enough fence to go twice 

 around the world every month. 

 That makes American Fence 

 Standardof the World 

 and keeps it the 

 Standard. 



Tell you why. 

 We make back the 

 cost of thousands of 

 dollars spent in im- 

 provements in fence 



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in one-twentieth the 

 time it would take any other 

 fence-maker. Because we 

 make and sell more fence than all other 

 fence-makers put together. 



That's why we have gone on making 

 improvement after improvement in 



AMERICAN FENCE 



making it and keep- ^ 



ing it "Standardof ^ - -^ ^ 



the World." 



Better galvaniz- 

 ing makes American 

 Fence last longer 

 than ever — cost less 

 per rod per year's 

 wear. 





NOTE— I want to lend you the combination key-ring, shown in the 

 corner, with our compliments, as a contiDUul reminder of American 

 fence. We register your name and number on our books, and return 

 kerB. without coat, if found and sent us. 



FRANK BAACKES, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Sales Agt. 

 American Steel ®. Wire Co.. Chicago, U. S. A. 





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leresiing article in another place in this 

 issue, in which he reports a hard season in 

 his section, accompanied by great loss of 

 plants, but adds that where plants were 

 properly mulched they came through the 

 winter (1905-06) in good condition! That 

 is the point, exactly. Where growers fol- 

 low out religiously that which they know 

 to be the right method, and do it season 

 in and season out, success is virtually as- 

 sured. Adopt a high standard — and live 

 up to it, if you would be uniformly suc- 

 cessful. 



J HAVE noticed that where an old straw- 

 '^ berry bed or plantation has been plowed 

 under, the soil in that spot has been more 

 than ordinarily productive of other crops," 

 jays a writer in Green's Fruit Grower. 

 "This is partly owing to the fact that ma- 

 nure has been applied to the strawberry 

 bed as a mulch or to protect it from win- 

 ter heaving. But there is another reason, 

 and that is that the roots of the straw- 

 berries and the heavy foliage turned under 

 by the plow is almost equal to plowing 

 under the clover sod, thus the soil is left 

 loose and friable and additional humus is 

 added. But consider how little fertility 

 IS taken from the soil by a strawberry 

 plant. The fruit of the strawberry is near- 



ly all water. Its tiny seeds are the part of 

 the berry which draws heaviest on the soil, 

 but these are so small that the drain on 

 the land in every case is very light. 1 

 consider that the strawberry takes but little 

 fertility from the land and for this reason, 

 in addition to many other reasons, the 

 strawberry crop is a good one to grow." 



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 Books and Catalogues Received 



Stark's Fruit Book for 1907 is bigger, better 

 and more suggestive and inspiring than ever. 

 From the beautiful colored cover to the last 

 page there is matter of interest for the fruit- 

 grower, and none may read its pages and witness 

 in photographic reproduction the extraordinary 

 results achieved by first-class trees and first-class 

 methods without realizing that the fruitman has 

 one of the most safe and profitable lines of busi- 

 ness possible, and that the delights of living and 

 working under conditions such as surround him 

 are not found in any other calling. Our readers 

 should send for Stark's Fruit Book. It is full 

 of information and instruction that will help all 

 who read it. 



W. N. Scarff, of New Carlisle, Ohio, is out 

 with his annual catalogue. It is neat, compact, 

 and arranged for ready reference. Mr. Scarff 

 combines poultry raising with his nursery busi- 

 ness, and his Orpingtons and Wyandottes are 

 fine. 



Walter B. Stokes, the well-known seedsman 

 of Philadelphia, has issued a catalogue in which 

 the illustrations are from photographs on his own 



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grounds, and the typographic appearance ot 

 which is unusually fine. IMr. Stokes was former- 

 ly of the firm of Johnson &: Stokes, and is one 

 of the well-known specialists in seeds of the East. 



R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers Mich., has 

 issued its 1907 "Great Crops of Strawberries," 

 which is illustrated in a unique, handsome and 

 profuse manner, and in addition to interesting 

 facts concerning strawberry plants, contains a 

 practical treatise on strawberry' growing, the like 

 of which never before has appeared. 



One of the most tasteful catalogues that have 

 come to us this season is that of the L. L. Olds 

 Seed Co. , of Clinton, Wis. Artistically and 

 typographically it is very fine, the illustrations 

 being very helpful and the arrangement of sub- 

 jects convenient. 



"Old Trusty" incubators and brooders, manu- 

 factured by M. M. Johnson, the expert incubator 

 man of Clay Center, Neb., are well set out in 

 the 1907 catalogue issued by Mr. Johnson, a 

 copy of which has just been received. It is in 

 truth a beautiful picture book, and of the most 

 convincing sort, and you should send for a copy 

 of it and get posted on matters relating to poul- 

 try production. 



The Maule Seed Book is another publication 

 that the gardener ought to have at hand. Mr. 

 Maule has not hesitated to put out his season 

 announcement in the most beautiful garb possi- 

 ble. Hence his 1907 Seed Book is a marvel of 

 artistic proficiency. Mr. Maule has always 

 been noted for his novelties. Many of the lead- 

 ing strains of vegetable and flower varieties have 

 been introduced by him to American farmers 

 and gardeners and are today producing wealth 

 and beauty on thousands of farms and gardens. 

 Hk reputation for new and valuable varieties k 



