ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES 



THE WORLD NEEDS FOOD 



And the world is willing to pay for it. Strawberries 

 are food. Not only do they have food value of their 

 own, but they help replace other more staple food, like 

 wheat and meat, and the fruit acids, like oil to an 

 engine, help keep the body fit. So ,when we raise straw- 

 berries, we are helping to feed a hungry world. 

 STRAWBERRIES FOR THE HOME GARDEN 



Nearly Everybody Likes Strawberries. The best 

 strawberries are those that are grown in your own gar- 

 den and picked fresh from the vines as you use them. 

 They are delicious, and the joy of having nice fresh ber- 

 ries for your own table fully repays for the small effort 

 required to plant and grow them. By using the ever- 

 bearer, Progressive, the berry season can be extended 

 thru the summer and early fall, until freezing weather. 



Your Grocery Bill will be greatly lessened by hav- 

 ing your own strawberry garden. Not only do you save 

 the cost of the berries you usually buy, but you have 

 more delicious fruit than you ever buy, especially at the 

 high prices which are bound to prevail for berries the 

 next year or two. You, also, save the cost of other 

 things you don't want, or need, now that you have plenty 

 of strawberries. 



Preserved Strawberries are the most delicious of all 

 the sweet foods we eat in winter. When you have them 

 to buy at 20 cents or 30 cents per quart, you are not 

 likely to preserve as many as you need. Have your 

 own strawberry garden and there will be plenty for 

 daily use on the table and for preserving also. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES FOR PROFIT 



At no time in many years has the crop of plants and 

 fruiting beds been so small. At no time has labor been 

 so high and scarce. These conditions make it practi- 

 cally certain that what you can grow will sell for a 

 price high enough to yield a good profit. Everybody is 

 making money in the large towns and cities and most 

 people are willing to pay liberally for fancy strawber- 

 ries, such as our plants, properly cared for, will yield. 

 You can make money now growing strawberries — the 

 amount being limited only to the quantity you can grow. 



Little Money is Needed To Start a berry patch. Be- 

 sides the plants, a dibble, or trowel, for planting and a 

 hoe and cultivator for working is all the equipment 

 necessary. 



A Family Business. The small farmer with a large 

 family is in a position to grow lots of berries now. He 

 can utilize the labor of his family at comparatively 

 easy work and at a business which will pay well. The 

 work is healthy, the pay is good, and the children can 

 work in the open air and with their parents. 



The Boy Can Be Kept on the Farm by getting him 

 interested. A patch of strawberries, say x /4 to 1 acre 

 will afford him pleasant, easy, intelligent work and at 

 this time, will yield profit enough to keep him inter- 

 ested in the farm, a chance that doesn't often happen, 

 as most farm work is less remunerative than other 

 lines of endeavor. 



Real Estate Values are increased by growing inten- 

 sive crops like strawberries. So much can be done on 

 a small piece of ground, that often rich, high priced 

 land in and near cities and large towns, can be profit- 

 ably planted to strawberries. 



