THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



between the rows. This was a new ex- 

 periment with me, and it proved to be the 

 proper thing. In a few weeks those o'd 

 remodeled fruiting blocks were almost up 

 with the spring-set plants. 



We had plenty of rain that season, and 

 everything was making splendid growth. 

 Weeds and grass were coming in for their 

 share of the foods which are so enticing to 

 plant life of all kinds. And it was only by 

 pulling weeds by hand when it was too 

 wet to cultivate that our plants were kept 

 from being crowded out by them. The 

 cultivators and hoes were kept on the 

 move when the soil was in condition for 

 the work. 



I staid right with my men until the latter 

 part of August at which time I was to go 

 to Spokane, Washington, to spend a few 

 weeks with a friend. Before leaving for 

 this anticipated pleasure trip, I took my 

 foreman all over the farm and explained 

 to him just what I wanted done, and how 

 to do it. When the day came for me to 

 start I left with the full assurance that 

 everything would be run in apple-pie order. 

 But the very first letter I received from 

 my wife carried the news that the foreman 

 had left the same day I did, and had never 

 shown himself on the farm since. But 

 she told me not to worry; that Dave Evans 

 was taking right hold of the work; and she 

 believed he was going to be able to keep 

 things going nicely until my return. Dave 

 was only a boy, but he had worked for 

 me for years and he understood my way 

 of doing things pretty well. There I was, 

 two thousand miles from home. My 

 friend and I talked the situation over, and 

 finally I decided to stay my visit out. 

 Thirty days were spent in Spokane, and 

 in the mining district of Sumpter, Oregon. 

 I was having a good time fishing and was 

 getting a much-needed rest. But good 

 times must come to an end, and it seemed 

 only a short time until I was again on the 

 train headed for Covington, at that time 

 the dearest spot on earth for me. It was 

 a three or four days' ride, and each day 

 seemed like a week, for I was getting 

 anxious to see how Dave had managed 

 things. To my great delight I found the 

 farm and everything on it in prime con- 

 dition. 



"Well, who would ever have thought 

 that Dave could have done so well with- 

 out any instruction," I said to my wife. 



"Yes, and the best of it is, he never 

 bothered me about anything; he just went 

 ahead and ran the farm as if it were his 

 own. 



As this recommend came from my wife, 

 I felt sure that Dave was the coming fore- 

 man of the Beatty farm. That is just the 

 kind of foreman I want. A foreman is 

 not a foreman at all unless he does possess 

 the ability to take the lead and run things 

 the same as he would his own. And it is 

 a fact that Dave Evans was my foreman 

 for nearly one year and he didn't know it. 

 'I'hat is, I never had told him that he was 

 foreman, and he remained foreman until 



I sold my Covington farm. And the man 

 who purchased my farm arranged with me 

 that Dave was to stay with him as his 

 foreman for a year, which he did. Last 

 September I sent Dave this telegram: 

 "Come to Three Rivers at once. Good 

 place waiting for you on the Kellogg 

 Strawberry farm." And he now has full 

 charge of all the plant setting and hoeing 

 on this farm, the largest of its kind in the 

 world. 



1 hirteen years ago little Dave Evans 

 started with me as a berry picker, and by 

 faithful attention to his duty he has worked 

 himself into a trustworthy position at a 

 good salary, with excellent chances for 

 promotion. This shows that it pays a 

 young man to work in the interest of his 

 employer. 



Well, to go back to my plants again, 

 they grew to mammoth size and went into 

 winter quarters in the best condition I ever 

 had seen plants at mulching time. Every 

 plant was well developed, and the crowns 

 were large and lots of them. We mulched 

 earlier that fall than in previous years. 

 Every plant on the farm was covered 

 before Christmas, and my prospects for 



the coming harvest were the most flatter- 

 ii^g since I had become a strawberry 

 grower. 



(Continued in June Numberl 

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