FANCY GROCERY OP A. S. NELSON & SONS. 
T.„o,., be^autltul Store 19 located at the corner of Nelll and Church Streets. Champaign, Illinois, where 
Beatty s celebrated Strawberries have been .sold tor ten years. One of the leading features of this great 
store IS the fancy fruU which Is always found In large quantities, and Beatty's berries always occupy a 
front seat, selling at 13c to 18e per quart, when Champaign is full of other berries that are selling from 
five to ten cents Nelson & Sons' customers have learned that the quality of these famous berries can be 
depended upon, and will have no others. " By his fruits shall they know him.' Fourteen courteous clerks 
and nve delivery wagons are kept continually on the hustle serving the nood of customers which are 
made up of the most prominent citizens of Champaign and surrounding country 
a few minutes' exposure to a bright sun and 
wind will make the roots as dry as hay, and 
they will surely perish. We shall use the ut- 
most care in delivering the plants to you, and 
then their success will depend on your care. 
You will find a world of pleasure in the busi- 
ness, if you have studied this book carefully, 
and by following its teachings you will build 
up a business you will truly enjoy and make 
a good fortune besides. 
DIGGING THE PLANTS. 
It reauires 125 men to dig these plants and 
25 sub-foremen with a head foreman and su- 
perintendent over the entire lot. Everything 
goes like clockwork, a certain place for every 
man and every man in his place. The men go 
to the field with the field foreman, who places 
them in gangs of five, with an experiencfed 
foreman in charge of each gang. Each fore- 
man is given orders to die a certain number 
of a required variety. Two men go ahead and 
rake off the mulch and pull off all the old run- 
ners and foliage, cleaning them ready for set- 
ting before they are dug; following these are 
two men with six-tine forks. These are run 
under the plants, lifting them straight out of 
the ground and shaking the dirt off so as not 
to injure or break the roots or bruise the 
crown. The foreman follows close up to the 
diggers and puts the plants into a wet bag be- 
fore any sun or wind strikes them. The entire 
row is dug, throwing the mother plants and 
poorly rooted ones out, After each bag is 
filled a tag bearing name of variety is tied to 
it with the foreman's name that dug them. 
They are immediately hauled to the packing 
house, where they are counted and packed 
ready for shipping. An aggregate is made of 
all orders to be shipped each dav and enough 
of all varieties dug to fill these orders. By 
this system all plants are shipped in perfectly 
fresh condition. 
STRAWBERRY EXPERIMENT STATION 
Our trial bed forms a regular encyclopedia 
of information and is the largest of the kind 
in the country. Here is where experimenting 
is carried out on all varieties to determine the 
best way to handle them for ideal results, 
studying the character of soil and methods of 
cultivation; also how to grow each particular 
variety to obtain the best berries and largest 
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