THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



EMPIRE PICKING BASKETS 



Made of 

 ASH 



Very 

 Durable 



No. 2, size 23^^ X 14x3>i, per doz., $3 



Will hold eight standard quart berry boxes. 

 Also used for gathering grapes, currants, etc. 



BERRY BASKETS at present price a 

 good investment. 



COLES & COMPANY 



109 & 1 1 1 Warren St., NEW YORK 





Money m 

 Flowers 



EARN 



A WEEK 



$35.?! 



with flowers in yard and gar- 

 den . Will you let me explain 

 toyouhowf Some mon*^y can 

 be earned almost anywhere, 

 but if you live In arit\' or lartre town, or even with- 

 in twenty miles of a city. I can tell you of an es- 

 pecially trood chance to earn money with flowers. 

 Some florists makeover ipH.OOO a year. I don't 

 want to sell you any flowers, but I would certainly 

 like to show you what niff- money you mltrht earn 

 with them. Four two-eent stamps sent today 

 brings you my plan of helping you, and also a 

 present worth twenty-flve cfnts. 



BOI 676. MRS. A. FACKLER, LINGLESTOWN, PA. 



net; daily products, $100; rental of house, 

 use of horse and carriage per year $100; 

 total income, $1,300. Expenses, $300 for 

 hired help; $100 for grain and manure 

 purchased; $200 for interest on investment 

 and taxes, making a total of $600. This 

 leaves me a salary of $700 for about seven 

 months, as I have but little to do in win- 

 ter, for about one-half my time; or about 

 23 percent on the investment. In about 

 eight years an indebtedness of $1,500 was 

 paid on my place, and $1,000 spent for 

 permanent improvements. 



"For the last few years, more thought 

 has been given to home-making, i. e., 

 planting of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, 

 flowers, etc., than to makmg a financial 

 profit. Our little family — wife and two 

 children — have been enjoying our subur- 

 ban home. The wife enjoys helping plan 

 the landscape gardening, and the family 

 fruit-and-vegetable garden, and caring for 

 the flowers and plants. The children 

 have their own little garden, with its flow- 

 ers and vegetables, and it is also a part of 

 their work to care for the poultry. They 

 read the agricultural papers, and right 

 here on the farm we have a good school 

 for them. This life we are living is far 

 better than the life spent in the office, 

 store, or shop and a rented home, with 

 perhaps no garden, and all supplies to be 

 purchased. When we depend entirely 

 on working with our own hands or brain 

 to provide a living, there is always a sense 



of uncertainty — something may happen — 

 health or employment may be lost; but 

 here on the farm, nature is working and 

 cooperating with us — something is growing 

 when we are resting, and we always have 

 an abundant supply of fruits and vegeta- 

 bles, which are of better quality than we 

 could purchase and do not call for any 

 cash outlay. There is a compensation 

 that is better and higher than all I have 

 mentioned. This kind of work brings us 

 close to Nature, and we become interested 

 and enthusiastic if we faithfully study her 

 processes. We learn to love our trees 

 and plants, and each member of the family 

 has become a thoroughgoing nature-lover. 



Harvesting a Crop of Strawberries 



By C. E. Van Wagoner 



I HAVE been a subscriber to The 

 Strawberry since March, 1906, and am 

 pleased to say that I have received 

 many new and helpful suggestions from 

 its visits. 



As I read the first issue of the New 

 Year and thought of the hundreds of peo- 

 ple who had received help from its valu- 

 able pages, the thought occurred to me. 

 Why not help the good cause along.' and 

 the next thought was, what could I say.? 

 This book is written mostly by scientific 

 men and I am only a practical strawberry 

 grower; therefore, there is little that I can 

 say. But on the other hand, as the greater 

 part of its readers are practical men, why 

 would not a practical experience be of 



interest.'' It might not be of so much help 

 to the older growers, but there are many 

 people just starting in the business, and 

 they are brought face to face with many 

 perplexing questions. Now, if those ques- 

 tions are discussed through The Straw- 

 berry by men who have faced them, these 

 beginners would have the benefit of their 

 experience, and save much time. So I 

 will give you my experience on harvesting 

 a crop of strawberries. 



I have been connected with the berry 

 business about twenty years, and have 

 tried many different plans, but like best 

 of all the one I am following now. First, 

 I have the patch so arranged that a road 

 runs through the center of the patch, cross- 

 ways of the rows. I have a temporary 

 crating office on this road. This office, 

 though simple in construction, has many 

 advantages. It saves labor and expense, 

 and the berries are better if put in a cool 

 place as soon as they are picked. There 

 always is circulation of air through this 

 office, keeping it cool. 



To make an office of this kind, take 

 two posts five and one-half or six feet long, 

 lay them down sixteen feet apart and nail 

 a board across one end. Now take two 

 posts enough longer to make a good pitch 

 to the roof and arrange in the same way. 

 After they are raised, brace them well, 

 put your roof on, board the sides about 

 one-third of the way down, put in a good 

 wide shelf to crate the berries on and the 

 office is complete. This size office will 

 answer for two acres very conveniently. 

 When we start picking each picker is 



Wasted Energy On The Farm 



SOMETHING must give way when you grind clothes on a washboard. It won't 

 be the board. Money will replace the clothes wasted that way, but not your 

 precious energy. That cannot be measured in dollars and cents. There is not a 

 single compensating feature for the energy wasted on a washboard or any device 

 that makes washing hard for you. . 



Rubbing means wear, and wear means waste, waste of fabric— money— and the 

 waste of priceless human energy. ^ -r-t. 



Why not have something (and have it now) that cuts off this waste? The 



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The "EASY" weighs only 28 pounds and Is on rollers-easy to 

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It's going to last too, because it's made of steel - th« toughest kind 



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 Unlike suds-soaked wooden tubs and washers, there is no reteutioo 

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