Our plant consists of a centrifugal pump made 
by the Morris Machine Works, of Baldwinsville, 
New York, which is the cheapest and most dur- 
able pump made for the purpose. Its maximum 
capacity is 1400 gallons per minute. A twenty-five 
horse-power gasoline engine, made by Olds & Son, 
Lansing, Mich., furnishes the power. It needs 
only to be started and stopped and does its work 
perfectly, and is the most perfect gasoline engine 
yet invented. The water is sent up the river bluffs 
through an iron pipe to the farm where hydrants 
Are conveniently located and to these are attached 
a ten-inch hose made of heavy duck canvass which 
conducts the water to the sluice boxes as seen in 
the engraving on the back cover of this book. 
The sluice boxes are made of three boards 
twelve inches wide and sixteen feet long 
and fit together so as to make a continuous trough 
with gates at the ends so the water can be stopped 
at any point. Small ditches are made between the 
rows by a large tooth on the cultivator and water 
is let into these by openings on the sides of the 
boxes, the flow being regulated bv a slide. 
No flooding: Is done, but the water .soaks down 
in the ditch and percolates out under the plants 
and then rises by capillary attraction to the roots. 
The surface is then cultivated as soon as the ground 
is dry enough. In this way our plants root as 
quick as formed and are kept growing naturally 
during the most protracted drouth and in the fall 
the roots are perfectly ripened and are in prime 
shape for shipment the ne.xt spring. 
Irrigation is especially valuable to the grower 
of Pedigree Plants because they make runners 
sparingly as compared with conmion plants, and 
without these conditions they could not be fur- 
nished at the prices named in this catalog. If you 
contemplate doing anything in irrigation, I shall 
be glad to give you the benefit of my experience 
in fitting up your plant. 
OUR EMPLOYEES. 
Our employees constitute quite a little army. 
They are divided into gangs and every person fits 
into his place, is assigned his .special work and is 
held responsible for doing it correctly. 
They are paid gooi wages and prize their 
places but they know they will be promptly dis- 
missed if caught napping. Every fourth man is a 
foreman and every division has an overseer, with a 
head superintendent over all. No boys or care- 
less men are employed. 
Each foreman is held responsible for the gang 
under his charge by being required to sign a ticket 
on every package of plants which comes through 
his hands so a mistake can be readily traced to 
the right party and great accuracy is secured. 
CHEAP PLANTS. 
( $1.25 to $2.00 per 1000.) 
Strawberry plants have been widely advertised 
at these prices and it may be well to point out how 
they are grown. The large expense of advertising 
in newspapers, sending out catalogues, digging, 
counting and packing the plants will convince you 
that when sold at this price they must be grown at 
a very small expense. 
They select low grround, generally on the 
border of a marsh or lake, and set the plants near 
together for the purpose of getting as many run- 
ners as possible. They throw out large numbers 
of runners and become viney and soon cover the 
ground with a dense mass, or they sometimes take 
high land and narrow the rows to a hedge in dig- 
ging and pick what berries they produce the first 
season, and in the fall the ground is covered with 
plants, and thus they go on digging plants and 
picking what fruit they bear from year to year 
without re-setting. 
Greenville 
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