THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



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 eight years old last 

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111 Writing- to Advertisers Please Mention The Strawberry 



Page 96 



my price, I'll get dealers who are willing 

 to pay what fancy berries are worth. I 

 don't intend to let any grocer put the price 

 on my products. He doesn't know any- 

 thing about the cost of growing my berries. 

 I'll name the price or quit the business." 



"I believe you are right; we might as 

 well lose one way as another," and my 

 wife started pounding the keys of the 

 typewriter like an old hand at the business. 



I must admit that both myself and wife 

 were a little nervous until we received 

 answers from these letters, fearing that the 

 dealers might balk at these seemingly high 

 prices, but in a few days the replies began 

 to reach us, and every last dealer said: 



"Let your berries come; we will abide 

 by the law." 



Well, a happier pair you never saw. 

 Berries soon were ripe and everything 

 went smoothly until the market became 

 overstocked with cheap berries, some sell- 

 ing as low as 5 cents per quart. Then 

 some of the dealers wrote me stating the 

 circumstances, and asked me to advise 

 them what to do. They didn't think it 

 possible to keep the berries at 15 cents 

 per quart. These letters made me pretty 

 nervous, but I sent word right back and 

 told them to "stand pat" on prices. This 

 took some grit, but I knew to weaken at 

 this point meant failure, while if I stuck to 

 my price this year, I would find it easier 

 sailing in years to come. 



(Continued next month.) 



Millions of Dollars in the Soil 



ONE of the suggestive and illuminat- 

 ing bulletins that so frequently 

 come from the Illinois Experiment 

 Stations asserts that "at ordinary commer- 

 cial prices the nitrogen contained in the 

 air above each acre is worth more than ten 

 million dollars," and goes on to say: "By 

 means of bacteria which live on their roots, 

 clover and other legumes have power to 

 draw on this unlimited supply of free ni- 

 trogen. 



"The ordinary, naturally well surface- 

 drained land of the corn belt in central and 

 northern Illinois contains in the soil of 

 one acre to a depth of seven inches suffi- 

 cient total potassium for a hundred bushels 

 of corn each year for 1900 years, if the 

 stalks are returned to the land directly or 

 in manure. The supply is about 36,000 

 pounds and one hundred bushels of corn 

 (grain only) contain 19 pounds of potas- 

 sium. Potassium may be liberated from 

 the soil as needed, by means of decaying 

 organic matter, such as farm manure, 

 clover residues, and legume catch-crops 

 as green manures. 



"If we could draw at will upon the 

 total phosphorus in the first seven inches 

 of soil the supply (about 1200 pounds) 

 would be entirely exhausted to that depth 

 during the lifetime of one man if hundred- 

 bushel crops of corn were taken from the 

 land. A hundred-bushel crop of corn 



