THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



A'Save Your Trees"\ 



Kill San Jose scale and other doHtruptlve parasites 

 with a Bprayinii solution of 



GOOD'S "•^t'i.rofr- SOAP NO. 3 



Sure death to inset^ts. No sTilphur. salt, mineral 

 oils, or any substance hamifiil to plant life. En- 

 dorsed by U. S. Dopt. of Aericulture. Pocket Manual 

 of cause", treatment and cure of tree diseases, free. 

 Write today. 



JAMES GOOD 



Original Maker, 985 N. Front St , PhiladelpMa 



Souvenir Post Cards 



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 of yourself, home, flower bt-ds. favorite horses, or pet 

 doirs. Accompany order with photograph and 75 

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 12 photo post cards reproduced from the photo, post- 

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MRS. J. H. PKATT. Three Rivers, Mich. 



AKE HONEY CANNING FRUIT 



for others. They'll pay hiph cash prices. 

 Send for Iree, money-makinp: catalog. 

 Tells al. about coats and profits made 



with our canning ootflt. Send now. 



Bepin to reap profits this season. 

 MODERH CAITNER COMPANY. 



fiept.M* Bridgeport, Alabama. 



NATURE'S RIVAL BROODERS 



THE Brooder that rivals nature because it has a 

 hover as natural as an old hen. Send today for 

 my circular explaining why they raise more and 

 stronger chicks than other Brooders, also why they 

 eoit you only 75c to $1.00 each. 

 S. G. ROBINSON, Jr. , Inxntor tad Pttantea, R. F. D 7, Wast Tolado, a 



cious berries may be expected from this 

 territory. 



In the great berry section around Chad- 

 bourn, N. C, also, there will be only 

 slight reduction in acreage. At that point 

 individual shipments are large and in some 

 respects the facilities for handling the ber- 

 ries recently have been improved. For 

 instance, a new refrigerating plant has been 

 built at Chadbourn for the special purpose 

 of a larger supply of ice for refrigerator 

 cars during the berry season. The crop 

 at present is in splendid condition, and 

 the prospect is for a large yield in this 

 territory. 



Last year it required 2,600 cars to 

 handle the berry crop in eastern North 

 Carolina, and the number required would 

 have been greater had the truck growers 

 been able to get help enough to pick all 

 the berries. It has become a problem in 

 some sections of North Carolina to get 

 help during the berry season. The first 

 shipment of berries last year was on the 

 5th of April, and the season lasted from 

 then until about the 10th of May. The 

 greatest shipment last year in one day was 

 212 cars. The railroads already have be- 

 gun to make preparations properly to han- 

 dle the crop, and it will not be many days 

 now before refrigerator cars will, be seen 

 on all the sidetracks in that great straw- 

 berry field. Last spring when the season 

 opened fourteen hundred cars were with- 

 in the territory ready to be loaded. 



Nowhere else may be found soil and 

 climate better adapted to the culture of 

 strawberries for the Northern markets than 

 in that vast extent of territory stretching 

 from Norfolk, Va. to the southern limits 



of North Carolina. It is only within 

 comparatively recent years, however, that 

 this fact was discovered and the cul- 

 ture of berries for market begun on any 

 considerable scale. Even now the indus- 

 try is in its infancy. With ten months in 

 the year in which there is no frost, with a 

 soil that is in every way ideal for the 

 growth and culture of the early berry, one 

 has here every advantage that nature can 

 give. It would be strange, therefore, if 

 it should not become the greatest straw- 

 berry growing territory in the world. 



Norfolk, v«. 



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WRITING on the "Garden of Small 

 Fruits" in Suburban Life, Prof. 

 Samuel T. Maynard of Massachusetts 

 says that "No other fruit is so distinctly 

 a home fruit as the strawberry. It is one 

 of the most prolific fruits, yielding some- 

 times as high as one hundred quarts to 

 the square rod, though the average yield 

 under good, ordinary conditions may not 

 be more than from twenty-five to fifty 

 quarts per rod." On the much-discussed 

 question of fall-planting of strawberries, 

 we are glad to note that Professor Maynard 

 ranges himself squarely on the side of the 

 question taken by The Strawberry. He 

 says on this point: "Fall planting is often 

 recommended, and while some good fruit 

 may be obtained in this way, and it is 

 better to plant at this time than not at all, 

 there will be litlla or no profit, while there 

 should be considerable from spring-set 

 plants." 



The Compulsory Marking of Fruit 

 Packages 



OREGON has taken a step in the 

 right direction and one which will 

 be, in the ultimate, of as great ad- 

 vantage to the fruit-grower as it will be 

 to the general public. From the Fruit- 

 Grower we learn that the Oregon legis- 

 lature has enacted a law under which 

 every fruit package sent out from that 

 state must bear the name of the packer, 

 and if grown by any person other than the 

 person packing it, the package must also 

 bear the grower's name. This law ap- 

 plies to shipments made within the state 

 as well as those sent to other states. 

 This law becomes effective three months 

 after the present legislature adjourns. 



The passage of this law is a part of a 

 general plan to provide a guarantee of the 

 quality of the Oregon fruits. It is de- 

 sired that every package of fruit shall 

 stand on its own merits, and the grower 

 and packer of it shall assume responsibil- 

 ity for its quality. The bill was intro- 

 duced by J. W. Perkins of Medford, one 

 of the best fruit-growers in America. 



For many years recommendations have 

 been made by experienced fruit-growers 

 to the effect that "all fancy fruit should 

 be shipped in packages bearing the grow- 

 er's name or trademark, but that low-grade 



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Stuff should be marked in plain packages, 

 and sold for what it will bring." How 

 many times we have heard this recom- 

 mendation made at horticultural meetings. 

 And now the (Oregon law says, in effect, 

 that one should not market any fruit which 

 is not worthy to bear the name of the 



'The Whole Thing in a Nut Shell" 



200 Eggs 

 a Year 

 per Hen 



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'T<HE sixth edition of the book, "200 Eggs a Year 

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 more eggs than any other method under the snn. Th< 

 book also oontains recipe for egg food and tonic used 

 by Mr. Fox, which brought him' In one wlnt«r day 68 

 eggs from 72 hens; and for five days In succession tron, 

 the same flock (14 eggs a day. Mr. F. F, Chamberloin 

 ofWolfboro,N.H.,8ay8: "By following the methods 

 outlined In your book I obtained 1,496 eggs from 91 

 R. I. Reds in the month of January, 1902." From 

 14 pullets picked at random out of a farmer's flock 

 the author got 2,999 eggs In one year— an average of 

 over 214 eggs apiece. It hao been my ambition in 

 writing "200 Eggs a Year per Hen" to make it the 

 standard book on egg production and profits in poultry. 

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Webster's Picker's Chariot 



This Chariot is used for finger-weeding, layering run- 

 ners, removing blossoms and picking. 

 It will carry 32 boxes. 

 Weigiis 35 pounds; size, 3 feet by SH feet. 

 One picks and carries all berries in the shade. 



PRICE: 



SINGLE CHARIOT - $ 4. SO 

 TWO CH>iRIOTS rOR 8. SO 



THREE CHARIOTS FOR 12.S0 



Special prices on larger quantities. 

 Anyone buying a chariot not satisfied after one day's 

 trial can return same at my expense wben allmoDey paid 



will at once be returned. 



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