THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



finished before allowed to begin another. 

 When pickers get tired, they are given a 

 few minutes' recess to play and rest. At 

 the end of the season pickers are all paid 

 at one time what their tickets call for in 

 checks, payable to order. It makes a boy 

 feel like a man to step into a bank, indorse 

 a check and cash it and get his money all 

 in a pile. Our berries are all sorted. All 

 mashed, rotten or dirty ones are taken out. 

 We use clean boxes, putting, if anything, 

 the largest berries in the bottom. 



"With our regular customers we use a 

 card, which is so arranged as to hold both 

 debit and credit, the sum of $5, which 

 amount is also punched out. The custo- 

 mer is charged with the full amount in 

 our book, but settles at the end of the 

 season according to the amount punched 

 on card. The customer retaining the card 

 knows at all times what he owes. Our 

 rule is: well-filled boxes, clean and in 

 order. We try to keep our customers 

 pleased and hold them from season to sea- 

 son and have generally succeeded. 



Fresh Strawberries as Medicine 



By Edgar L. Vincent 



STRAWBERRIES always used to 

 make me sick when we had to buy 

 them. I very rarely used to try to 

 eat them at all. But after we came on 

 the farm and had them of our own grow- 

 ing I never had any trouble of that sort. 

 For some years prior to that time I had 

 been troubled with weak digestion, so 

 that I could not eat much fruit of any 

 sort, or thought I could not. 



Things changed when we had berries 

 of our own. We set out several varieties, 

 among them some that ripened early and 

 others that came along later. The mo- 

 ment the earliest kind began to get eat- 

 able I would go out into the garden and 

 eat all I wanted before breakfast. There 

 was sure to be a nice dish of the beautiful 

 fruit on the table at breakfast, and every 

 other meal of the day, for that matter, 

 and I ate my share of them. The last 

 thing at night I would go out and take 

 my fill of them right from the vines, and 

 I tell you they did taste good! 



And the best of it was that they did not 

 hlirt me in the least. On the contrary, 

 they were better for me than any medi- 

 cine I could have procured from the doc- 

 tor. How do I account for it that, where- 

 as the berries I used to buy did me harm, 

 those we grew ourselves had the opposite 

 effect.' I believe it was because they were 

 fresh and not wilted. Many times the 

 berries we had bought had to be shipped 

 ? long distance, but our own were fresh 

 and that made all the difference in the 

 world. Berries should always be eaten 



fresh if possible. Binghamlon, N. Y. 



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