rtrawborries and How To Crow Tliein% 
IT TAKES THOROUGHBREDS TO DO IT. 
T^HAT is the conclusion of F. E. Gahringer of Racine, Minn., wlio writes under date of July 25 1905, when 
^ sending us the above view of his strawberries, saying: "I have learned that it takes Pedigree plant t pro- 
duce the 'big red' berries. My six rows, each of which was nineteen rods in length, brough i. $125. This 
sum does not include what I preserved, gave away and consumed for family use from June 17 to July 20, the 
latter being no small item. I feel well repaid for the time spent. " 
in fancy style. A good grocer and fancy ber- 
ries mai<e just the combination to insure an im- 
mediate sale at top prices. 
Then a tremendous quantity of berries may 
be sold at retail direct from the field or packing 
house by advertising in the local papers. A 
small advertisement in a few of the best papers 
will bring customers from a long distance. A 
great many people prefer to buy direct from the 
grower and you will be surprised how buyers 
will drive in from different towns as well as 
from the country and take berries home by the 
crate for canning, etc. This is an especially 
desirable way to dispose of your second grade 
berries, as it doesn't pay to ship them. Any 
grower is bound to have a few of this kind 
that have been graded out from the fancy stock. 
One of the most satisfactory and profitable 
ways of disposing of the berry crop is to sell to 
the people of your own city or town. One of 
the leading growers of a Western state has an 
extensive plantation just on the outskirts of a 
city of 16,000 population. He employs two 
bright young men as "city salesmen" and each 
drives a wagon about the town, making large 
sales every day during the season. Not a box 
of the berries grown on that place finds its 
way to th: railway station; and the prices re- 
ceived are top prices. 
Never in all the world has there been an 
overplus of fine-flavored, juicy strawberries, and 
we don't believe there ever will be. There 
may be carloads of little, dried-up, green-top- 
ped, vinegary things that masquerade as straw- 
berries, rotting in the town stores, but they won't 
affect the sale of a single box of your whole 
crop if yours are Thoroughbreds. 
Preparing for Second Crop 
IN preparing the fruiting bed for second crop 
just as soon as the berries are all harvested 
mow off the foliage close to the ground, 
letting it lie for about thirty-six hours. Select 
a day when there is a brisk wind, go to the side 
of the field from which the wind is coming, 
take a fork full of straw and lighting it with a 
match, walk along the end of the field, carry- 
ing the fork full of burning straw close to the 
ground, so the dry foliage and mulching will 
catch fire. The burning destroys all insects, fun- 
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