AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



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A concrete tank erected on estate of Edmund Tatham, 

 Katonah, New York 



Frederick J. Sterner, Architect - - New York 

 De Lancey A. Cameron, Builder - - New York 



Tank designed for storage supply of 15,000 gallons, 

 built entirely of concrete reinforced with Clinton welded 

 wire. Before roof was placed over tank, and during 

 winter months, ice 10 inches thick formed on water 

 stored therein. No cracks or leakage have developed. 



Clinton Wire Cloth Company 



CLINTON, MASS. 



FIREPR00FINQ DEPARTMENT 



ALBERT OLIVER 



1 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK 



washington i rosslyn supply co., colorado building 

 syracuse, n. y.: paragon plaster co. 

 st. louis! hunkins-willis lime & cement co., south end 18th st. bridge 

 san francisco! l. a. norris, 835 m0nadn0ck building 

 Seattle: l. a. norris, 909 Alaska building 



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on the third. When these appear in full force 

 the havoc is astounding. If moles undertake 

 to assist you in cleaning them out, do not dis- 

 turb them at their work — although they may 

 destroy a few plants. The crown borer is a 

 pest of the worst sort. This is a member of 

 the curculio family, and the grub eats its way 

 into the crown of the plant, just when the 

 berries are about to ripen. In the southern 

 states a small black beetle attacks the buds 

 and the blossoms, destroying the stamens. For 

 all of these pests white hellebore and kero- 

 sene emulsion are recommended; but the real 

 truth is, you will have to pick up your straw- 

 berry bed and run to some other part of your 

 ground. For fungus diseases on the leaves 

 apply Bordeaux mixture. Begin the spray- 

 ing early in the spring and repeat it fre- 

 quently. If you retain your bed for several 

 years, you will do well to burn it over after 

 bearing to destroy the insects. 



Of all fruits nothing should go on to the 

 market to make an impression for its beauty 

 superior to the strawberry. A mussy lot of 

 berries will never bring a compensative price. 

 Compel your pickers to handle with delicacy 

 and sympathy. The strawberry happens to 

 be a fruit which must be frequently shipped 

 a long distance, and to do this successfully 

 needs very tidy work. It is not altogether in 

 the variety, but in the picking and the packing. 

 As soon as a crate is filled, if it cannot be im- 

 mediately shipped, it should go to a very cool 

 and dry cellar. The small grower of straw- 

 berries should have a home market. He 

 should go directly to customers of his own, 

 and he should serve them so perfectly that 

 they will want his berries year after year, and 

 no others. 



I am writing more particularly for home 

 makers, and for this reason shall say very 

 little about market. Yet I hold that all these 

 little country homes that are being made up — 

 and I am glad to say that they are more and 

 more being created on the intensive principle — 

 should pay their own way. That is, while 

 they are planted or created first for the home 

 idea, they should soon produce a surplus, 

 which, going to market, should pay all the 

 expenses of running the home. The straw- 

 berry surplus, as I have suggested, should go 

 to a near market, made up of consumers. I 

 remember well my first surplus after estab- 

 lishing my country home. It was only seven 

 dollars above expenses, and this came almost 

 wholly from strawberries. However, I will 

 not recommend to home-makers any large 

 amount of experimenting with this berry. It 

 is delicious, and it is captivating, but it makes 

 lots of work and takes lots of time — which 

 means expense. I can grow ten times the 

 value of raspberries, blackberries, cherries, 

 pears, etc., from the same area, with the same 

 labor and time. I can manage the enemies of 

 other plants with a greater certainty, and I 

 have seen a lot of strawberry bankrupts. So 

 I say, plant a few varieties on well-prepared 

 soil ; and if you find it profitable as compared 

 with other things, you can enlarge your 

 future plantations. 



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