=1 SMALL FRUITS AND HOW TO OROyV THBM 
THE FAKMER'S FRUIT 
GARDEN. 
No place on the farm will furnish so much 
health, pleasure and profit as a small plat 
set aside for a succession of asparagus, 
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and 
grrapes. It furnishes concentrated delicious- 
ness for your table all summer long-. Wjth 
plenty of berries, which can be gathered in 
a few minutes, a few other nicknacks, and 
the meal is ready. It only requires a few 
strong fruiting pedigree plants and a little 
delightful evening recreation in the way of 
caring for them and the pleasure is yours. 
If you can use the horse for culti- 
vating, set in long rows as the nature of 
grourd will permit. If all the work is to be 
done by hand and plants are to be kept in 
hills, set two rows one foot apart and plants 
18 inches apart in the row and then leave an 
alley two feet wide in which to stand to 
pick the berries and hoe. Set pistillates 
(female) and staminates (male) plants to- 
gether. If you wish to let them run in nar- 
row rows, set two and a half feet apart 
and twenty inches in row and cut off all 
runners till the middle of July, then let 
them form and root and cut off all runners 
after they have made one plant and you will 
get berries that will astonish you. Of course 
you will hoe frequently during the drouth 
and keep weeds out. 
There is an immense amount of 
pleasure in seeing the good things coming 
on, and when the great delicious beauties 
begin to turn red, there will be no diffi- 
culty in keeping the boys in the patch, 
and when you send a negligent neighbor a 
dish you will enjoy both his envy and grat- 
itude. 
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for high grade fruit is not met in any town. 
It is fruit so poor in quality people cannot 
eat it that gluts the market. 
AVe commence takings in money from 
our asparagus beds very soon after the frost 
is out of the ground and it continues until 
strawberries ripen, then follow raspberries, 
currants, gooseberries, . blackberries and 
grapes without intermission. Have some- 
thing to offer customers every day. Do not 
let them get the idea they can get along 
without fruit for a single meal. If they tire 
of one variety have something else to tempt 
their appetite. 
Keep them eating and filling up your 
pocketbook. 
I have made most money selling 
direct to private families. I have never 
failed to secure for customers nearly every 
family on all the principal streets. Other 
growers tag around after me and offer my 
customers their berries for two or three 
cents per quart less, but I pay no attention 
to them, always insisting on a fair price, 
quality considered, and they are only too 
glad to get them at that. 
Furnish eacli family witli a ticket 
printed on manilla cardboard about three 
inches wide and eight inches long and insist 
that the ticket shall be hung in a convenient 
place by the door where it can be found 
without delay. This prevents all bickering 
and dispute about price of berries pur- 
chased. It saves making change and loss 
of sales because ladies do not always have 
change. It suits the "man of the house" 
because it furnishes a voucher as to correct- 
ness of bill. The family will buy double 
the fruit when this ticket is used and it 
assists in holding the customer. Insist on 
pay every week except when bill is pre- 
sented at store or office at close of season. 
The following is the form for ticket: 
Don't Forget to Bking this Card. 
THE MARKET. 
Do not worry about the market. If you 
have the reputation of growing large lus- 
cious fruit and offer it in an attractive style 
people will hunt you up and readily take all 
you can grow. The word goes from one 
family to another and to their friends in dis- 
tant towns where families club together and 
have fruit sent them daily by express and 
they divide it among themselves. We have 
had a large trade of this kind in Detroit, 
Saginaw and other cities. 
Fancy fruit never knows a glutted mar- 
ket or keeps the grower waiting. It is the 
customer who waits for you. The demand 
TIME IS PRECIOUS. 
When you hear our bell ring, kindly HAVE THIS 
CARD READY AND BE AT THE DOOR, so we 
can make the proper entry and deliver the fruit with 
as little delay as possible Payment expected every 
Monday. 
M_ 
In Account with R. M. KELLOGG. 
Date. 
Quarts 
Wanted. 
KIND. 
Dr. 
Cr. 
Keep a neat personal appearance. Shoe 
blacking is cheap, wear a good fitting busi- 
ness suit of clothes and be in a condition to 
approach a wealthy family and make a good 
impression. Never offer a customer berries 
in an old dirty box. Keep your wagon look- 
ing neat. We have a wagon furnished as 
fine as a phaeton, with name of farm in large 
gold letters, artistically shaded, a large 
shiny black horse with heavy harness and 
