THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



THE STRAWBERRY 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE INTERESTS OF STRAWBERRY 

 PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 



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The Kellogg Publishing Company 



Three Rivers, Michigan 



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MAY 1907 



MAY is the month of hope, of live- 

 ly expectation, and of active 

 work along all the lines of agri- 

 culture, with its myriad ramifi- 

 cations. April's soothing and fructifying 

 showers have softened the earth crust and 

 helped to burst the seed shell; verdure 

 covers the earth, the rich shades of green 

 smiling back to the smiling run in token 

 of her appreciation of his mighty and all- 

 pervading warmth. It is the time when 

 lassitude should give way to energy; no 

 more the glowing fireside and the enthrall- 

 ing book. But mind alert and muscle 

 tense with the vigor of health and the 

 spirit of achievement are the order of the 

 season; and if we would make the year 

 of value and advance, we must be up and 

 doing. Let us make this year a note- 

 worthy one in the strawberry world. It 

 will afford satisfaction beyond anything 

 we may dream. Let each one of us make 

 a field or a patch of such beauty that when 

 its photographic reproduction appears in 

 The Strawberry, it will challenge the 

 admiration of the world and win the lead- 

 ing prize. 



IZ'ALAMAZOO direct to you!" was 

 ■'•^ the cheering word the citizens of that 

 beautiful and thriving Michigan city ex- 

 tended to William Thompson as an April- 

 day expression of their esteem for and 

 confidence in the man who has made that 



phrase famous. For one year M r. Thomp- 

 son had served as mayor of that city. It 

 was said of his administration that there 

 were as many men of the opposition party 

 selected to help him administer his trust 

 as there were in his own. This satisfied 

 the partisans of neither side, but the com- 

 mon people recognized it gladly; also the 

 fact that heheld the vicious elements of the 

 city in check. The result was an alliance of 

 the partisan and vicious elements to defeat 

 him. But it was an "April-fool" for them. 

 The aroused people flocked to the polls 

 and re-elected Mayor Thompson by a 

 handsome majority, and the city of Kal- 

 amazoo is glad. So are the thousands of 

 friends of the famous stove maker all the 

 country over, who know that it takes an 

 honest man to make such goods as are 

 turned out under his direction; for Mayor 

 Thompson is the vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager of the famous Kalamazoo 

 Stove Co., with whose splendid merits so 

 many readers of The Strawberry are fa- 

 miliar. It's a good day in the municipal 

 history of the land when such men as Mr. 

 Thompson are chosen to the important 

 office of mayor. 



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READERS of The Strawberry may be 

 interested to know that the general 

 land office at Washington has issued a 

 statement giving the location of public 

 lands reopened to entry by the president's 

 recent order. Previous to that proclama- 

 tion lands were included among those 

 classed as coal lands and withdrawn from 

 entry. The reopened sections are Colorado 

 1,250,000 acres. New Mexico 2,000,000 

 acres, Montana 2,100,000 acres, Oregon 

 710,000 acres, Wyoming 1,240,000 acres, 

 Utah 138,000 acres, Washington 320,000 

 acres. During the first six months of the 

 current fiscal year the general land office 

 at Washington reports a heavy business. 

 The net increase in the number of entries 

 for all classes of public lands was 17,233, 

 while the net increase in cash receipts 

 averaged $1,500,000 According to Sta- 

 tistican C. A. Blanchard of the reclama- 

 tion service, the government is at present 

 engaged on 25 important projects in the 

 West involving a total expenditure of 

 $60,000,000. The work when completed 

 will make productive 3,198,000 acres of 

 arid land. 



PRUIT interests in British Columbia 

 •»■ are strong and the recent annual meet- 

 ing of the association bearing the name of 

 that province was most interesting. By 

 the way, this association holds quarterly 

 meetings. That for April was held at 

 Summerland, the July meeting will be at 

 Kaslo, and that of October at New West- 

 minster. The members of the association 

 went on record as indorsing the inspection 

 of all fruits before leaving docks, warehouse 

 or station, and the rejection of all fruits 

 shown to be infested with San Jose scale 



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and other injurious insects. James John- 

 ston, Nelson, was elected president for the 

 ensuing year, and W. J. Brandrith, Lad- 

 ner, secretary. 



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pOOD containers need to be sanitary and fit 

 ' to keep food in. Anything that contami- 

 nates or injures the color, flavor or odor of foods, 

 should not be brought in contact with the foods. 

 You might as well say that an old rubber shoe 

 would hold water and therefore was fit for a 

 drinking vessel It presents the matter in pre- 

 cisely the same light. They take old rubber 

 shoes, rubber syringes and old rubber waste that 

 has been used in any and all ways, melt it over 

 and make what they call shoddy. Out of this 

 they make the important part of their food con- 

 tainer. What woman would buy a dozen rub- 

 ber rings if she knew they were made from such 

 material.'' And still, possibly in a temporary 

 way these gaskets may preserve meats and veg- 

 etables; but, is preserving all you want? If they 

 will add that they are preserved in a fit form for 

 use and will state the facts truly, what the rubber 

 gasket is made of, that they use, then their case 

 will be complete and a customer can determine 

 whether he wants such goods or not. These 

 shoddy rings do not contain more than five per 

 cent of rubber. One of the most experienced 

 rubber manufacturers of this country, connected 

 with a concern that turns out twenty-five to 

 thirty carloads of jar rings a year, declares there 

 is not an ounce of rubber in them, every part 

 and parcel of them is shoddy. People who use 

 the Economy jar are absolutely free from any 

 trouble on that score. 



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T N this day of scarce labor and high prices econ- 

 * omy is the watchword on every well-regulated 

 farm. One of the most valuable inventions ever 

 made in the interests of farm economy is called 

 the 2-in-l Harrow and is manufactured and sold 

 direct to the farmer by the Nay lor Manufacturing 

 Co. of No. 4 Hillgrove avenue. La Grange, 111. 

 Mr. Naylor the superintendent and general man- 

 ager, is a practical farmer of many years' exper- 

 ience. This harrow combines in one implement 

 the virtues of both a spring-tooth and spike-tooth 

 harrow, and the construction is such that all the 

 weaknesses of both the spring-tooth and spike- 

 tooth have been overcome. Where in former 

 years it was necessary to go over new plowing 

 with a spring-tooth harrow to break up the sods, 

 following with a spike-tooth to complete the pro- 

 cess, this new harrow does it all at one operation, 

 thus saving half the time of men and team. 

 This harrow has also developed many other fea 

 tures in actual use, which are highly approved 

 by Agricultural Experiment Stations and all who 

 have used it. The cost for this harrow is very 

 low. If you don't know how big a help it is, 

 write to the above address and full imformation 

 will be sent you. 



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THE fundamental scientific principles under- 

 lying the successful growing of large and 

 unusually profitable potato crops are simply and 

 admirably stated in the little book "The Acme 

 of Potato Profit," which every one of our readers 

 should have. It takes up particularly the sub- 

 jects of soils, their preparation, and the planting 

 of the seed — the things which most affect the 

 success of the crop. It tells how to cut down 

 the expense of planting, how to insure a strong, 

 even stand, what are the faults of the different 

 methods of planting and how to avoid them. 

 It tells of the one method of planting that can 

 secure perfect results, and how this is done with 

 the Acme hand potato planter, at a cost of but 

 one dollar. It all makes a story so interesting 

 and instructive, a story so clearly and simply 

 told that our readers should not fail to read it. 

 "The .'\cme of Potato Profit" is sent free by 

 the Potato Implement Company, Box 531, 

 Traverse City, Mich. Send for it. 



