BASKETS AND BERRY BOXES 
For many years past we have bought all our fruit 
packages of the Wells-Higtnan Co., of St. Jo- 
seph, Mich., and knowing them to be among the 
most extensive and reliable manufacturers in their line 
we take pleasure in recommending them to any one who 
may be in need of berry boxes or other ship- 
pingpackages. They also manufacture the Amer- 
ican basket for shipping berries, and many prefer them 
to the Hallock boxes. Their goods are strictly first- 
class, and fruit growers who are not acquainted with 
this firm should correspond with them. They will 
mail their illustrated catalogue free on application. 
They are headquarters for Grape, Peach, and Melon 
baskets, and have factories in the south as well as in 
Michigan. 
OUR ALL-METAL DIBBLE 
Price, 35c. 3 for $1.00. 
THE best tool in all the world for setting 
strawberry and vegetable plants. The 
handles are made from cored malleable 
castings and is a part of the cast malleable iron 
shank which is riveted to 
the blade with three rivets. 
The blade is made from 
No. 11 giiage, bright C. 
R. steel; it is ten inches 
long by four inches wide, 
and ground to an edge on 
lower bevels; it is twelve 
and one-half inches long 
from handle to point, and 
weighs nearly two pounds. 
Last year we set eighty 
acres and this year 100 
acres of plants with them, 
and they are the most sat- 
isfactory tool ever used on 
\ !P Dur farms, 
-f^ l^ast season the factory 
could not get them to us 
in time to fill all our or- 
ders, and we were obliged 
to return money for over 
two thousand dibbles. This year we have a 
stock of more than 10,000 on hand and the 
factory still making, and we guarantee to fill all 
orders that come to us; they can be sent with 
plants that go by freight or express, but can- 
not be sent by mail. 
Remember you have our guarantee that these 
dibbles are first-class in every respect, so you 
safely may include them in your order. 
Planet, Jr., Twelve-Toolh Cultivator 
THIS tool has rapidly grown in favor among 
strawberry growers, rnarket gardeners, 
truckers and farmers. This is because 
the twelve chisel-shaped teeth do such thor- 
ough work, yet without throwing earth on small 
plants, and because the tool is so convenient, 
durable and strong. The combination of teeth 
and pulverizer leaves the ground in the finest 
condition. The pulverizer, used with the lever 
wheel, also enables the operator to set the tool 
exactly to any depth desired, making delicate 
work not only possible, but very easy. It is in- 
valuable in narrow rows and fine work in mar- 
ket gardens, and close work on the farm. We 
have used these cultivators exclusively on our 
plant farms for years and could not afFord to 
abandon them. They leave the soil perfectly 
level, which prevents any waste of moisture by 
capillary attraction. 
We have sold hundreds of them and every 
one has given perfect satisfaction; they do not 
throw dirt or ridge it like most cultivators, but 
can be run so close to the row that very little 
hoeing is necessary, which cuts the expense down 
enough the first year to more than doubly pay 
the cost of the cultivator. It is an easy matter 
to keep a field of strawberry plants clean of 
weeds and the soil in a perfect dust mulch at a 
small expense, if the grower has the right kind 
of tools to work with. 
We have one hundred acres of strawberry 
plants and only twenty men, averaging just five 
acres to each man, and we practice the most 
intensive cultural methods of any plant grower 
in the world. No weeds, no surface crust, no 
insects or fungi; nothing but pure, healthy straw- 
berry plants. It is a matter of having the right 
kind of tools, and doing everything at the right 
time, in the right way. 
The price of this valuable tool complete, is 
only ,$8.50. We would not recommend it if we 
did not know that it was the best cultivator on 
earth for strawberries and garden truck. They 
can be shipped from Detroit, Mich.; Milwau- 
kee, Wis.; Peoria, 111.; Minneapolis, Minn.; 
Portland, Ore.; San i' rancisco, Cal., or Phila- 
delphia, Penn. 
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