M . KELLO GG'S GREAT CROPS OF 
attract the attention of all the others, but let 
the superintendent g-o to him quietly and set 
the example of silent work. 
The best berries can be easily spoiled by bad 
picking-. Teach them to pick the stem and not 
pull off the fruit so as to muss the berries. Put 
the big- berries in the bottom of the box and fill 
the box up well and face them by turning- the 
points of berries up on top, which makes them 
look very beautiful. It will be a pleasant sur- 
prise to your customers when thev empty the 
box and find the big- berries in the bottom, and 
they will tell it to their neighbors. A high 
reputation for honesty is the best capital in 
any business. 
Use tickets to settle 
in the field or a con- 
ductor's punch and a 
ticket printed so you 
can punch out the num- 
ber of quarts picked 
and pay pickers at the 
end of the week. 
We pay one cent per 
quart for berries grown 
in hills and one and 
one- half cents for 
matted row, and at 
close of season for 
those who have re- 
mained all through we 
pay one-fourth cent per 
quart more. Reward 
your pickers by a picnic 
dinner at the lake or 
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FRUIT FARM 
Picker's C.\rd. 
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some distant grove where you can drive with 
wagons. They will greatly appreciate it and 
it will help you to secure the best pickers in 
the community. 
The Pla.set Jk. Hoksis Hoe. 
Tlie Planet Jr. horse hoe and cultivator. 
This is called a horse hoe because it does the 
work of a hand hoe so completely that the lat- 
ter can be almost entirely dispensed with. It 
has such a hang," that is, it handles so easily 
and is so quickly adjusted to width and depth 
as well as different work that a man soon 
becomes an expert and can put it in between 
the plants and do the work so skillfully and 
rapidly that it is a pleasure to work with it. 
The pulverizer attachment so fines the sur- 
face, leaving it so loose and level, that the 
water is drawn up from the subsoil by capillary 
action and is stopped above the roots, where it 
is completely protected from sun and wind 
until the plants can drink it up and thus be 
enabled to maintain a steady growth during a 
protracted irouth. We can furnish at lowest 
manufacturer's^ prices their complete line of 
modern hand seed drills, garden cultivators 
and other tools. Send a postal card for special 
catalogues and prices of tools. 
Price of horse hoe complete, without pulver- 
izer, $8.00; with pulverizer attachment, $10.00. 
CARE OF PLANTS. 
strawberries and other small fruit plants 
can be sent to any part of the globe with per- 
fect safety. During the past spring we made 
large shipments to British Columbia, Nova 
Scotia and all the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf 
States, as well as to New South Wales, Austra- 
lia, a distance of 17,500 miles, the plants arriv- 
ing in perfect condition. 
They cannot be sold and handled with 
general nursery stock. The tree agent buys 
his trees in thousand lots where he can get 
them cheapest, often in different places and 
distant nurseries. They are brought together 
and unpacked and each customer's order made 
up and labeled, always in an open field. 
The roots are always exposed for a con- 
siderable time in doing this work, and while 
the trees may endure such hardship, the plants 
are sure to perish or be so injured they cannot 
serve the planter and give him a full crop. 
This is only one of the reasons why we 
do not sell any plants to persons selling gen- 
eral nursery stock or to tree peddlers. The 
other reason is so many " agents " are wholly 
irresponsible and use this pamphlet to get 
orders with and then deliver cheap exhausted 
plants. 
Please understand distinctly these plants 
cannot be bought of any agent. 
We sell only direct to planters, ' and if 
purchasers will exercise the same care in 
handling the plants which we do in growing, 
digging, counting and packing them, they will 
not under reasonably favorable climatic '-.on- 
ditions lose one plant in a thousand. 
How cheap plants are dug and packed. Of 
course you do not expect a person will do work 
and lose money in doing it. He cannot grow 
dig and pack the plants for less than he re- 
ceives. The plants are dug by striking a rake 
into the row and pulling them out. They are 
then counted by boys and packed on the ground 
and both moss and roots exposed to the winds 
and sun all the time this work is being done. 
Where the tooth of a rake strikes the 
crown it will not grow, no matter how perftct 
the roots may be, and each of these many mu- 
tilated plants makes a vacancy in your field. 
We do It this way. Beginning at the end 
of the row, a long six-tined fork is forced into 
the soil below the roots in front of the plant so 
it does not touch any crown. The soil is lifted 
with the plant and dirt shaken out and instantly 
picked up and placed in a wet box with cover, 
so they are not exposed an instant. When the 
box is full it is carefully labeled and taken to 
a close room in a large building built expressly 
for the purpose and supplied with every con- 
venience for doing perfect work. The leaves 
and stems are carefully removed and counted 
in bunches of 26 plants. The orders are so 
aggregated and given out to diggers that the 
different varieties come to the packing house 
at the same time, and the orders are carefully 
made up at once. No plants are exposed an 
instant or left over, but all packed by our 
