TEXAS (B). 
EXTRA EARLY. Extra heavy fruiter. Stools up 
more readily than any other extra early variety. It 
originated in Texas, but succeeds ccjua.iy well at the 
North. Berries deep red, high quality and a p.ood ship- 
per. I feel enthusiastic over its future. On good, 
heavy, rich soil it i.^ the most productive of the extra 
early sorts and I highly commend it. Two years selec- 
tion and restriction. 
BEDERWOOD (B). 
MEDIUM EARLY TO LATE. Very popular 
tlirougliout the country and one of the heaviest fruiters 
of its season among tlie bisexual varieties. Berries 
crimson, moderately firm, high quality, a splendid pollen- 
izer. Valuable for family and near market. I have it 
under record of seventeen year pedigree. Quite at home 
on any good land. 
the family bag-stone. He began to doubt 
whether the miller could make good flour out 
of grain carried to mill without the regulation 
bag-stone and felt sure his father would 
trounce him for spoiling the grain, in that way 
and so returned, replaced the stone and felt 
he had narrowly averted a disaster by accept- 
ing the advice of a crank. 
Just look aroun-d you and see how many use- 
less appendages in the form of bag-stoncs are 
still being carried by the already overburdened 
man. Are you sure you are not granddaddy 
blind when you refuse to accept tlie aid of 
modern discoveries and divide the grain so 
you carry nothing but grain? 
Look into your berry fields and see the 
barren plants or those having no machinery in 
their bodies to make berries and yet after the 
fashion of yonr fathers continue to throw coal 
(manure) under the boiler (plant) and force 
an engine (plant) with a broken valve to devel- 
oj) power (fruit). 
Now, my friend, the moral of this story is 
that a respectable majority of people in yonr 
community arc now and will remain granddad- 
dy blind in the berry business and you can 
throw out the bag-stone, adopt the better meth- 
ods, be a leader, and build u|) a business you 
will really enjoy and jirovidc liberally for your 
family and old age. 
THE PROPAGATING BED. 
You cannot make a success in growing ber- 
ries where you propagate plants in the same bed 
upon which you grow fruit. Each requires a 
different treatment to produce best results. It 
is much like the old combined reapers and 
mowers of fifty years ago. They were to cut 
both grass and grain and always wasted and 
bungled both. You must stop using alley 
plants because they are always immature and 
their constant use will make the fruit so un- 
even in quantity that you lose five dollars 
where you gain one. 
Preparation for a big crop of high priced 
berries must begin in advance. You must not 
only have your ground fitted, but your plants 
must have a development of fruit organs and 
so must be grown under special care. It 
makes a world wide ditl'erenee if you start the 
bed with plants already well developed be- 
cause in this case you have only to enable 
them to hold their own and then you can get 
results. 
In selecting ground avoid all low, mucky 
soils. These unduly stimulate the vegetative 
parts of the plant at the expense of fruit or- 
gans. Such soil are largely used by growers 
of cheap plants because they make a world of 
runners, but it is hard on the man who buj'S 
tlie plants; for a plant grown under such con- 
ditions will go right on making runners in- 
stead of berries. 
Select a sand loam and set plants fully 
twice as far apart as if they were intended for 
fruit. Make it only moderately rich and de- 
pend on thorough tillage and layering the 
plants so they will root as soon as formed and 
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