THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



must be to meet an existing demand, or 

 a demand that he can easily create. 



"But when you aim to squeeze $500 

 out of half an acre of land, you must ex- 

 pect to do your part well. It cannot be 

 done except by means of high culture and 

 shrewd management. You must select 

 suitable varieties. You must use plant 

 foods freely, and put the soil in best order 

 even before you plant, and then keep it 

 cultivated and free from weeds and free 

 from an excess of runners, and you must 

 apply a mulch between the rows and 

 around the plants as a winter protection, 

 and for the purpose of keeping the berries 

 clean when it rains. But all these things 

 are comparatively simple if you know how, 

 and they entail but a moderate and, com- 

 pared with the returns, really small ex- 

 pense." 



Gardening, Independence and a 

 Home 



THE experience of W. H. Jenkins, 

 who tells the story in the March 

 issue of Suburban Life, is one from 

 which many men situated as was he may 

 take encouragement and hope. Mr. Jen- 

 kins is a newspaper man — a reporter and 

 special writer, and finding out-of-door 

 work for a part of his time necessary for 

 health reasons, and desiring to add to his 

 income, purchased a suburban home, 

 consisting of about four acres of ground, 

 a comfortable house and a commodious 

 barn He was able to pay only one-third 

 of the price down, but he assumed the 

 burden and set out to "make the little 

 farm pay for itself." He bought a Jersey 

 cow, a horse and wagon and buggy, about 

 one hundred hens, and set out on his ca- 

 reer as a gardener. Very wisely, he began 

 to study, reading all the agricultural and 

 horticulural literature he could get, and 

 began to experiment in growing fruits and 

 vegetables. He decided that his "main 

 money crops should be strawberries, celery 

 and cauliflower, because of the experience 

 and skill required to grow them of the 

 best quality, the local market is seldom 

 well supplied. We quote; 



"The rotation of crops which I finally 

 settled upon in my gardening is to plant 

 one-half an acre of strawberries every 

 spring and run ihem two years so 1 have 

 an acre every year in fruit. After fruiting, 

 or about the first of July, 1 plow the oldest 

 part of the strawberry bed, or one-half an 

 acre, and set to late celery. The follow- 

 ing spring 1 set this to early celery. Be- 

 tween the rows of strawberries, the first 

 year, when g'ovving the plants, I grow 

 cauliflower. '1 his |ihm gives me one acre 

 of strawberries, one acre of celery, and 

 one acre of cauliflower every year. I have 

 hired one man by the month during the 

 summer months, and also extra help by 

 the day. For years I have worked at my 

 literary work forenoons, and the most of 



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Seed Bed in HALF THE TIME 



B 



ECAUSE it does the work of 

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 Spike Tooth Harrow at 



J. K. Kajlor, I 

 praetlrtl fu-mei 

 who Invented Ihl 

 great time-saTin(; 

 2-in-l Harrow. 







^^^^^^ ''J^^Kl one time and at one operation. 



M^^KM^^^^m' Because, vou Boe, my harrow 



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That means if it rains overnight you haven't 

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 harrows separately. 



One lever instantly adjusts my harrow so you 

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 all the teeth up out of the way so that the frame 

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When a live farmer knows about my harrow he 

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 spring tooth and spike tooth harrows out in the 

 barnyard with grass growing up around them. 



The farmers have thrown them away and are 

 using my harrow alone — and they're MAKING 

 MONEY by doing it. 



HOW I CAME TO INVENT THE 

 2-IN-l HARROW. 



I always had the same trouble you've had ia 

 getting my ground ready. 



It seemed like there ought to be some way 

 around it. So my brother and I pot busy one 

 winter AND SOLVED THE PROBLEM. 



This is the way we figured: 



A spring tooth harrow wants to keep digging in 

 all the time. That keeps the frame pressed hard 

 on the ground and it's a tough _pull on the horsee. 



A spike tooth wants to keep jumping up all the 

 time, you have to put some neft on the top to 

 keep it down. The horses have to drag the heft 

 as well as the harrow. 



So we made a 2-in-l harrow — spring and spike 

 teeth together. Ihat season we used it on our 

 farm and it worked just as we figured it would. 



The spikes kept the springs from digging in too 

 far. ana the dig of the springs kept the spikea 

 down to their work— and once over (except on 

 extra bad groundj left a smooth, even, perfect 

 6eed bed. 



That's why my 2-in-l Harrow was easier on the 

 horses than either a spring tooth or spike tooth 

 alone and SAVED OVER HALF OUR TIME 

 getting ready for planting. 



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 eoM has since sold from two to five more. 



My Harrow is such a really wonderful thing 

 and such a TIME and MONEY saver for the 

 farmer that I expect each harrow I place will keep 

 on selling others in the neighborhood. So I 

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the afternoons I have spent, working or 

 overseeing the work, in the garden. 



"My little place of less than four acres, 

 with its equipment, has cost about $3,000. 

 The income, in an average year, when I 

 am working my place according to the 



Page 92 



above plans, runs about as follows: One 

 acre of celery, minimum yield $500; one 

 acre of strawberries, $300; one-half acre 

 of cauliflower or cabbage, $100; black- 

 berries, raspberries, grapes, apples, vege- 

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