THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 



7. Women Berry Growers are often among the most successful. No other 

 crop is so adapted to being handled by women entirely as strawberries. Even 

 where they are not running the berry business alone women take an active part 

 in the work. It gives them a break in the routine of housework and affords an 

 excellent opportunity to earn some extra money. 



8. Berry growing can be made a family business. A farmer with a family can 

 utilize the labor of his family at light, interesting 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. 



9. The Boys and Girls can be kept on the Farm by getting them interested. 

 A patch of strawberries, say % to 1 acre, will afford them pleasant, easy, intelligent, 

 work and at the same time will yield profit enough to keep them interested in the 

 farm, a chance that doesn't often happen, as most farm work is less remunerative 

 than other lines of endeavor. 



10. Real Estate Values are increased by growing intensive crops like straw- 

 berries. So much can be done on a small piece of ground, that often rich high 

 priced land in and near cities and larger towns can be profitably planted to 

 strawberries. 



11. As an intercrop between fruit trees, strawberries excel. The space can be 

 utilized and made to pay with strawberries, while the trees are getting into bearing . 



Strawberries for the Home 



Everyone likes them, every family should have a strawberry garden, if there 

 is a plot of land available, no matter how small. They will pay big dividends in 

 health, pleasure and profits. The best berries are those grown in your own garden 

 and picked fresh from the vines as you use them. They are delicious and the joy of 

 having nice fresh berries for your own table every day fully repays for the effort 

 required to plant and grow them. By using the everbearer Progressive or Cham- 

 pion the berry season can be extended through the summer and early fall until 

 freezing weather. 



Your grocery bill will be lessened by having your own strawberry garden. 

 Not only do you save the cost of the berries you usually buy but you have more fine 

 fruit than you ever use when you have it all to buy. You also save the cost of the 

 other things that you don't want or need, now that you have plenty of straw- 

 berries. 



There are many ways of preparing strawberries. Eating them "right off the 

 vines" is popular with many folks. "Sugared down" for some time to let the juice 

 come out is a favorite — perhaps the favorite method of eating strawberries. 

 Strawberry shortcake might well be called the national dish. Fresh berries are 

 used in soft drink preparations, in punch, in ice cream, and in many other ways. 



Preserved strawberries are the most delicious of all the sweet foods we eat in 

 winter. They are fine in conserves, marmalades, canned strawberries and straw- 

 berry jelly. There are many ways to "do up" berries and enjoy them throughout 

 the year. Do up a lot of them, they will help out wonderfully "when winter comes." 



Extra money. Some extra money for the housewife or children can readily be 

 had from the home strawberry garden. 500 to 1,000 plants will produce sufficient 

 berries for a large family and leave a good many to sell. There will be a market for 

 them. If you have room in your garden try a good big plot. It will pay. 



NOT A BAD PLANT IN THE LOT 



Roanoke, Va., April 19, 1924. 

 I received my order of strawberry plants in first class condition. There was not a bad plant in 

 the lot. N. P. Taylor 



