Make 2 Berries Grow w here 1 



— Double Your 

 Strawberry Crop 



Grew 

 Before 



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Every Strawberry Grower is anxious to double his crops. 



It is easy if you go at it in the right way. 



When you remove a crop, you also take with it a certain percentage 

 of the soil's nutrition. You reduce fertility in just that proportion which 

 was consumed in growing that crop. It is reasonable, then, that you 

 should be vitally interested in returning to your land adequate means 

 every year to keep up its fertility. Feed your land 



Swift's Strawberry Special 



A high-grade concentrated Strawberry fertilizer that has proven in 

 actual test to be the best plant food. It quickens the growth, assists 

 development and improves the quality of the plant. 



There are many good reasons for this. Its analysis,which is guaranteed, 

 shows it supplies the soil with special elements practically advantageous 

 to strawberry plant life. Its base is Pure Animal Matter comprising Dried 

 Blood, Bone and Meat Tankage so proportioned in Ammonia, Phosphoric 

 Acid, Potash from Sulphate of Potash, to produce an ideal plant food. 



___ . Get our instructive Ferilizer Book. It will help you to make your Strawberry 



vv ntC Beds pay bigger profits. Ask your nearest dealer for Swift's Strawberry Special. 



np_^ J Remember "Two Berries grow where one grew before " — that is. Double Profit 



X OQciy — ^j^j j^g more labor. To find out about " Swift's Strawberry Special" write to 



Swift & Company, Fertilizer Department, Chicago. 



Feed Your Hungry Land 



^&"' 200 lbs. 



)Wift's 



Blood & 

 I Bone 



irtilizer 



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The Delicious Southern Strawberry 



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if-kin;; Slr;(\v)>erries on line of llliiioi.. <Viilr;tt K, K. in l.oiiis 





PROLIFIC IN QUALITY. EARLIEST ON THE MARKET, AND A 



LONG GROWING SEASO/V 



IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI ON LINE OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. 



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ESIU'THEKX STRAWBERRY (iliOWEIt 1ms 



er his lirntlier of duritii: tli 



Mississipjii, berries art- frequently rnady for market durint; the month of Murch. iiiid 

 Khipinents foutinue until June, or until gni'h ti uk* as the Nnrtlicni niurk«'t.s an- so 

 ;rlult<-d an to make it unprofitable to ship them so far. aft^r which the SouthiTij mar- 

 kets are still available. The season fur pickinij; hemes in the South Is much Ioniser 

 than in the N'orth; they eoiitiuuiuir tn blussoiu and ripen for two months, and in 

 some eases it has been even three months from the time of thi> first to the last jiiek- 

 iuy:. The Illinois Central Railmad Coinpiuiy. upprc^eiating to the fullest extent the 

 necessity of haWni: fruit and vei;etable.s trrowni on it.s line reach Northern markets in 

 the best possible condition, has not only provided the best of refriirerator cars. but. 



•11. run fruit trains from N'«\v Orleans to Chieairo. shipments beiuL' 

 picked up from all stations, say within one hundred miles, and fn>m the last puint 

 the train is nin thruutrh to Chleano on fast scdiednle. stopping only for coal and 

 water, and at certain points for re-icins. In addition tn its system for handlim: 

 jierishable products en route, the ■ 'Central" has a storehouse or fruit warehouse at 

 Chicago in which fifty ears can be quickly handled at one time. 



Sftiifl for I 



issued by the III 



l>ii;;f I lliist ratf il Itonk t'itlitl*'il "Aliotif llic Soni i 

 :)is Central R. R . Co. and describins various matters of intei'^'st to 



the home seeker and investor, tncludiu:; inf«jrmation as to FVuit Gwjwimr. The 



book is free and can be had by addressiiis; 



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