THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



and the world! There comes to us a letter 

 from one who has made one brave effort 

 in life, but failing health makes a change 

 necessary, and with courage and confi- 

 dence she looks forward to even greater 

 things in her new work. She writes us 

 from a Missouri town as follows: 



I am a piano teacher and in poor health. Had 

 to leave St. Louis on account of my health. 

 Have read The Strawberry and have become 

 very greatly interested in the opportunity offered 

 by strawberry growing, and want to know every- 

 thing about it. 



Success already is assured where one 

 enters upon her work in the spirit this 

 woman has shown, and we are confident 

 that not only will she find renewed health 

 in the invigorating contact with good 

 Mother Nature, but that prosperity of the 

 material kind shall be hers, and she also 

 will have the great satisfaction of knowing 

 that she made the best of her opportunities. 



When we think of that little woman, 

 starting out at this time upon a new career 

 of self-support and consider the thousands 

 of stalwart young men and rosy-cheeked 

 girls who are well content to let father 

 struggle and mother economize that they 



We wouldn't say so if 

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m.iy be supported in idleness — well, we 

 wiih at least to call their attention to the 

 opportunities offered by gardening and 

 fruit gnwing; try to wake them up to a 

 realizing sens& of their own mental and 

 moral condition, and get them to the point 

 where they will be glad and anxious to 

 make for themselves '"a local habitation 

 and a name." 



Ana as the little Missouri piano teacher 

 has discovered, there is no more attractive 

 fie'd and none more promis ig than that 

 offered by strawberry prod , :tion, which 

 offers limitless opportunities. ;o enterprise 

 and industry everywhere. 



Organization for Selling F uit 



By J. B. Graves 



FRUIT GROWERS ought to or- 

 ganize to sell their fruit. Other pro- 

 ducers have done so and have found 

 it greatly to their advantage. 



1. One advantage of organization is 

 to secure better banking arrangements. 

 The influence of an organization with a 

 bank is more powerful than that of any 

 one man. A bank will accommodate a 

 member when it knows of his honesty and 

 his capability. It can be induced to help 

 the individual growers tide over a crisis. 

 The recommendation of the organization 

 will get the money. 



2. A second advantage: organization 

 reduces the shipping expenses and puts 

 the fruit into a more distant market. 

 Growers shipping independently must 

 ship by express, unless they are large grow- 

 ers, and the rates of such shipments are 

 high. By shipping car lots the rates are 

 lower. Express shipments are generally 

 without refrigeration and to near-by mar- 

 kets. These are often lower markets. 

 Under refrigeration distant and better 

 markets can be reached. By cooperation 

 the small lots of many growers can be 

 combined. The ccmbination makes it 

 possible to reduce he expense and to 

 reach the better marset and higher price. 



3. Another advantage: cooperation 

 gets cheaper material. Acting singly grow- 

 ers must buy their package and spray ma- 

 terials, fertilizers, etc., at retail prices. 

 Acting jointly they may buy such goods 

 in large lots at wholsale prices directly 

 from the factory. In such dealing there 

 is a decided saving. 



4. By cooperation better railway ser- 

 vice can be secured and better shipping 

 facilities. Railroads and express compan- 

 ies solicit business when it is on an exten- 

 sive scale. They compete one with the 

 other for such business, vie with one an- 

 other in their favors, and do special service 

 for an organized concern. Special trains 

 have been put on through the efforts of 

 organizations. 



5. Organization stimulates growers to 

 adopt better cultural methods. By-laws 

 require it. Best methods are taught. The 



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members encourage one another. By vis- 

 itation and observation lessons are learned 

 and better methods are acquired. Contact 

 with progressive growers inspires. There 

 is a healthful enthusiasm developed by 

 community work. 



6. Organization develops better meth- 

 ods of picking and packing. Rules are 

 made by associations to govern the work- 

 ers. The rules are enforced. The en- 

 forcement makes better pickers and pack- 

 ers. They try to learn, try to do good 

 work, try to excel, try to do as well as the 

 best. This rivalry in finish work brings 

 high-class results. As a rule the best 

 work in both picking and packing is done 

 by cooperative unions. l"he price is large- 

 ly governed by high-class work in culti- 

 vation and packing. 



7. Another advantage and result of 

 organization is specialization. Growers 

 make many experiments. 1 hey do it to 

 find the best thing. They find it. In 

 localities they find that a certain variety 

 of apples or strawberries succeeds bettei 

 than any other both in the field and in the 

 market. The tendency of cooperation is 

 to specialization. The best strawberry 

 localities are coming to adopt a single va- 

 riety. Commercial and cultural evolution 

 is getting in its work. The fittest survives. 

 If it is the part of wisdom for a union to 



