MICHEL'S EARLY (B). 
Long known as the earliest of all berries, but now 
gives place for others, but none more than two or three 
days ahead of it. Hedge or narrow row. Likes sandy 
loam best. Berries deep red, firm and good shipper. 
Pedigree thirteen years of selection and restriction. 
pletely and build up an establishment second 
to none. 
My two business partners share in this en- 
thusiasm and recognize the fact that cash is 
only intended to contribute to human happi- 
ness and we shall use it lavishly wherever it 
will secure a betterment in our work. The 
strawberry and nothing else shall claim the 
rest of my life. 
PALMER (B). 
EXTRA EARLY. I can now catalogue it with con- 
fidence. Berries deep crimson, mild, rich flavor for home 
table or market. Second year of selection and restriC' 
tion. 
The story of the bag-stone serves to illus- 
trate the point. The families of our Puritan 
fathers all kept a bag-stone. There were few 
roads in those days and the grain was carried 
to mill on horseback, being put in one end of 
the bag and a great stone in the other end to 
make it balance. Other things were carried in 
the same way. One day a boy approaching a 
mil! was accosted by a gentleman who told 
him to get off and throw out that great use- 
Throw that Bag-Stone away. 
THE GRANDDADDY BLIND. 
A person may be said to be granddaddy 
blind when he persists in following minutely 
in the steps of his father, grandfather and great- 
grandfather, and who cannot be induced to 
accept the marvelous discoveries growing out 
of modern specialism. Our ancestors knew 
nothing as to how plants lived, how they 
multiplied or why we can graft all sorts of 
fruit on different limbs of the same tree and 
get the same fruit as the tree from which the 
bud was taken. 
Futting Back the Bag-Stone. 
less stone. The boy dismounted and the man 
helped him to take out the stone and divide the 
grain and put it back. The boy was delighted. 
He wondered why his father had not thought 
of that before. The horse walked better under 
the lighter load and he could get back home 
sooner. But he began to soliloquize. He re- 
garded his father a smart man, his grand- 
father was a captain in the army and his great- 
grandfather one of the selectmen of the town 
and he felt they were smarter men than the 
man who had coaxed him to throw away 
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