BUBACH (P). 
LATE. Probably not a strawberry grower in the 
country that has not fruited and admired Bubach. It 
must have rich, strong soil and then it is a market com- 
mander. Do not set it on light or poor soil. Seventeen 
years of selection and restriction. 
to pick up actual necessities. To-day he is a 
multi-millionaire, but every dollar is honestly 
his. What amount of money would it take to 
induce the people not to use the telephone, 
electric light, phonograph and a thousand 
other world famous inventions. For every 
dollar he has the world has received a thous- 
and, so the world is greatly in debt to him and 
all nations have thrust honors and decorations 
on him. It would have taken him many thous- 
ands of years to have accumulated this property 
as a common day laborer. 
Now, suppose you take a piece of ground 
and make it very rich and buy a lot of straw- 
berry plants, all vigorous fellows with strong 
constitutions, and pay, say, half a cent apiece 
for them, and then put about ten cents worth 
of labor on them and the world gladly pays 
you fifty cents for the fruit. That is an honest 
value and carries with it honor to you and the 
respect of the community. 
The world applauds success and despises 
failure. To succeed you must climb above an 
ordinary wage earner, you must strike out and 
do something extra. Of course, it is of the 
highest honor to be a wage earner, if you are 
a good workman. Chas. Schwab, of the steel 
trust, received a salary of a million dollars a 
year and his salary was low because he con- 
tributed to the great corporation much more 
than that and made it a success. 
HUNTING A BERRY FARM. 
I am often asked, "Where would you go to 
start a berry farm?" The answer is, I would 
go anywhere there is good land and a few peo- 
ple. Every intelligent person on earth loves 
the strawberry. It is not only the most de- 
licious fruit ever created, but people will pay 
a higher price for it. Go where you will you 
will find customers and, if there are others in 
the business I would command my liberal 
share of patronage by being worthy of it and 
ROUGH RIDER (B). 
LATH. At the time this berry was being introduced 
President Roosevelt was leading his rough riders in 
Cuba. The world was electrified by the dash of this 
regiment and the introducer took advantage of the catchy 
name. The variety has met with phenomenal success as 
the late berry in Oswego County, New York, and its 
merits proven, but prices of plants were high, many were 
taken from old. exhausted beds and these purchasers were, 
of course, inclined to turn it down. It requires heavy, 
rich land, and then it is all that was ever claimed for it. 
Its pedigree here is five years. 
growing better fruit than they do. I would 
have the machinery in every plant I cultivate, 
perfect, that I should get big pay for the care 
I bestowed upon it. I would use great care 
not to starve my family and children by try- 
ing to raise berries on plants which had no 
machinery, or weak worn out machinery in 
their bodies. 
I would not spend a dollar running around 
the country, but I would locate where eventual- 
ly I could have a beautiful home with advan- 
tages of school and church. God pity the 
man who has no ambition to have a home of 
his own. 
MAKING A BEGINNING. 
If I did not have money enough to buy land, 
I would lease a piece for a term of years with 
a contract privilege of buying it. I would not 
take poor land as a gift. Buy rich land, if you 
can get it; if not, buy poor land and make it 
rich. Spend your money for manure. Get in 
debt for it; get it, anyhow or any way. Get 
what you can and set a small patch, then sow 
the balance to cow peas or some other legumi- 
nous plants. Buy potash and phosphoric acid, 
say, about three hundred pounds of each, and 
sow before you sow the cow peas. This will 
make them grow fast. This class of plants 
gather the needed nitrogen from the air. They 
store it in their bodies and when plowed under 
it becomes available to the next plants. You 
can get into the ground cheaper this way than 
any other way. 
Get all the stable manure you can find and in 
this way you will soon have land as rich as a 
garden. 
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