i>i;*^^ii*^X f if?, Strawberries and How He Grows Them Ri'i^ 
BISMARK (B). 
LATE. So closely resembles Bubacli in fruit and foli- 
age it would be bard to tell tbeni apart except when in 
bloom, one being perfect and the other imperfect in 
flower. Pedigree, ten years. 
Don't worry about your debts. One big crop 
will fix them. Many times I have grown single 
crops that paid for the land, all the manuring, 
the cost of the plants, all the expense of til- 
lage, picking, marketing, and all other ex- 
penses and had lots of pin money for myself 
and wife left; but I never did it on poor, un- 
manured land. I have often exceeded five 
hundred bushels per acre and, if you will kind- 
ly visit me next fruiting time, if climatic con- 
ditions are reasonably favorable, I will show 
you even more than that, right on the plants. 
Just take your pencil and figure up how much 
five hundred bushels of berries will come to 
at a shilling a quart. Never mind what com- 
mon berries sell for. I know that they sell for 
a few cents per quart, but strictly fancy ber- 
ries always command more than a shilling and 
you will soon learn how to get it. 
COMPETITION IN BUSINESS. 
Business always goes to the fellow who can 
give the largest amount for the least money. 
This is always a question of facilities for pro- 
duction and a correct knowledge concerning 
the operation of his machinery. People do 
love to patronize an up-to-date man and they 
do despise a fellow that is a back number. 
They love to boost a fellow who is going up 
hill and kick him, if he is going down. 
Every one can make more money when 
wages are high because every one buys more. 
It is not a question of overstocking the mar- 
ket with anything, but it is a question of con- 
sumption, and consumption is always governed 
by quality. A person always eats two big 
dishes of berries when quality is high and 
don't care for even one when the quality is 
low. 
I know the poor fellows who tag around after 
me seeing me unload the big, lusty berries 
into people's houses at a big price were utterly 
miserable because they had no purchasers, 
while I was supremely happy because I had 
BIG LATE (B). 
Later than anything, but no plants obtainable this 
year at any price. No, not for dollars each. I have nev- 
er introduced a variety because I could not find one or 
produce a seedling that I felt absolutely sure was a 
thing far better than anything now under cultivation. I 
have been content to develop and bring out the higher 
qualities of old standard sorts, but now I straighten up 
and with the fullest confidence that it is superior in big- 
ness, richness, lateness, prettyness, moneygettingness, 
family happiness and all other "nesses" that mean bet- 
terness, so next year I shall launch it. Don't ask for it 
now for your gold will not get it, but I just want to show 
the photograph so you can whet your appetite for it 
next season. 
more than I could attend to. It is all a ques- 
tion as to how you breed plants, manure and 
cultivate. The fellow who worked for noth- 
ing and paid for the privilege of being boss 
probably got as much pleasure out of his 
money as he could in any other way. I confess 
to a good deal of pride in being boss. 
No potato hook3 used here in digging plants, No 
crowns broken or mutilated. No plant exposed to the wind 
and sunshine for a single instant. Every plant grows if 
properly cared for. 
DIGGING THE PLANTS. 
The mulch is removed and old leaves and 
stems are picked off in the row before plants 
are lifted because there is no danger of injur- 
ing the crowns in doing it then. 
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