and 
Chickens 
truth a labor of love, accompanied by such 
pleasure as few vocations afford. If you have 
not a family strawberry bed now, don't let an- 
other season go by without one. 
p\ON'T put all your eggs in one basket," is 
^ good advice, and nobody appreciates it 
more than the poultryman. There is one in- 
dustry that he can engage in that just comple- 
ments his business, an industry whose chief de- 
mands upon his attention are made at a season 
when he has the most time 
Strawberries ,q j^^^j^ [y,^^ 
women all over the country 
are proving in the most 
practical way the truth of this statement, and 
many of our own patrons who follow these two 
lines of enterprise are enthusiastic advocates of 
the combination. We cannot give better ad- 
vice than to urge this combination of poultry 
and strawberries wherever it is possible. Both 
are great profit makers; both maybe engaged 
in with a very limited capital, and both begin 
to yield returns very quickly after the invest- 
ment is made. Strawberries and chickens have 
been the making of many a comfortable fortune; 
the opportunity is as broadly inviting today 
and as promising of results as ever. 
^^NE word about the size of plants. Some 
varieties by nature grow large plants, others 
grow small ones. Some grow small plants in 
the propagating bed, but large ones in the fruit- 
ing bed, where they are under the influence of 
restriction. But it is well to bear in mind that 
The 
Question of 
Size 
the size of the plant is quite unimportant. The 
smallest plants at setting time not infrequently 
grow the most magnificent crops of fruit. In 
this connection please note that with each de- 
scription we are this year showing a photo-illus- 
tration of a plant of each variety. Although 
the picture necessarily is 
reduced greatly, taken with 
the pictureof the fruit above, 
it enables you to see just 
what you may expect. In photographing we 
have been careful to select an average plant 
neither the largest nor the smallest of the several 
varieties. 
'W^'E call especial attention to the four addi- 
tions we have made to our list of plants 
Stevens' Late Champion, Thompson's No. 2, 
Beidler and Hummer. In listing new varieties 
we are particularly careful to present only those 
which have great merit. AH four of these 
we have tested, and we have received such 
gratifying reports from others as to satisfy us 
that they are a quartette possessed of highest 
merit. Please read care- 
fully the descriptions and * Word 
illustrations appearing in 
J ' , . f L New Varieties 
the pages devoted to them, 
and let us hope that each grower will give every 
one of them a thorough test in 1907. One of 
the most interesting lines of work and study re- 
lated to strawberry production is afforded by the 
trial and test of new varieties of plants. It is a 
means of acquiring a broad knowledge of plant 
life and a deep and lasting affection for the work- 
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