If there is a fruit plant or tree on earth that responds richly to good treatment, generous feeding, 
an abundance of air and sunshine and good cultivation it Is the strawberry. The above illustration Is not 
a mere imagination but a true story told by the camera of a fruiting (?) bed. This one is in our neigh- 
borhood and you have the same kind In your locality, and yet the owners are always wondering why they 
never have any LUCK In growing berries. Some persons have no clear idt-as of what true energy is; that 
is, they get confused in regard to luck and a talent for work. We pity them. Don't you? 
runners from which all our customers are fur- 
nished. They arc just as truly thoroughbred 
as any animal in the land. 
THE SCIENCE OF PLANT BREEDING. 
The organization of the division of Vege- 
table Physiology and Pathology of the Agri- 
cultural Department at Washington, D. C, is 
of comparatively recent date, but today it is not 
only the leading division of the department, 
but the Bureau of Plant Breeding in connec- 
tion with it is becoming the most prominent 
and employs the world's best experts in carry- 
ing on its work. 
The National Animal and Plant Breeders' 
Association, whose meeting was held at St. 
Louis, Missouri, in December, 1903, has taken 
up the work of plant breeding in a practical, 
systematic way and the revolution in agricul- 
tural methods as well as in fruit growing may 
be said to have fairly begun. 
The literature of this science yet consists of 
but few pamphlets and books, but they are 
multiplying, for practical plant breeding is 
destined to add untold wealth to the world's 
storehouse. 
To those who are interested in pursuing 
further the study of this most important sub- 
ject we would recommend that delightful lit- 
tle book, "Plant Breeding," by Prof, L, H, 
Bailey of Cornell University, and published by 
Macmillan & Co,, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, 
Also Bulletin No, 29, U, S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C, entitled. Plant 
Breeding by Willet M, Hayes, Professor of 
Agriculture, University of Minnesota, It can 
be procured by writing to the department. 
The day is not far distant when no fruit 
grower will set plants or trees not propagated 
from pure bred stock and he will rely on the 
practical plant breeders to furnish him for 
his fruiting orchards and fields with plants 
scientifically grown. 
THE PROPAGATPIG BED. 
You cannot make a sur,ess in growing ber- 
ries where you propagate plants in the same 
bed upon which you grow fruit. Each req^iires 
a different treatment to produce best results. 
It is much like the old combined reapers and 
mowers of fifty years ago. They were to cut 
both grass and grain and always wasted both. 
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