D. A. FRIEND'S PATCH OF THOROUGHBREDS AT ZOAR, OHIO 
"*HIS strawberry bed," writes Mr. Friend undpr date of July 10, 1910, "is 60x100 feet, and produced 920 quarts of fine berries 
tViis season from plants bought from you. This is the second crop. They are the Glen Mary, Wm. Belt and Dotnan." 
of runners required for the system decided 
upon, the runners being layered precisely the 
same as in the original field. And in culti- 
vating this field for the second crop the same 
methods will be followed as was done in cul- 
tivating the first generation. 
Poultry and Strawberries 
NOT long ago it was our pleasure to visit 
a man whose home is in the lake region 
just west of Milwaukee, where thrifty 
German truckers and fruit growers have 
lived for years and made a country beautiful 
by nature to blossom and fruit with prosper- 
ity. Right in the midst of them was the 
home of a tall, broad-shouldered Yankee, 
who had bought a nine-acre farm on credit 
and who had, in the language of the neigh- 
borhood, "beat the Dutch" at their own 
game. We visited his strawberry patch, in 
which quite a force was at work picking the 
fine fruit that was promptly shipped into 
Milwaukee. He had found that the strawber- 
ry end of his work gave him a fine cash re- 
turn in the summer, and had been one of his 
chief stand-bys in paying for his comfortable 
and productive home. 
As we left the train at the station we had 
noted a fine cock, crated for shipment — a 
noble fowl, standing like a statue, evidently 
quite aware of the fact that he was the "ob- 
served of all observers," and enjoying the 
situation to the full. We mentioned this to 
our host, who informed us that the cock was 
one he had just sold at a high figure. It was 
going to a customer at some distance to head 
an important flock. This led to a talk on 
poultry, and while he showed us through his 
neat poultry yard and houses, with their 
modern, though mostly home-made conven- 
iences, he told us of his experiences. 
By combining strawberries with poultry he 
found profitable use for every hour of his 
time, and the nine-acre tract that he had 
bought at a pretty stiff figure had all been 
paid for out of his earnings from his dual 
industry. His wife and children had helped 
greatly — all had worked together; and now 
that his farm was all paid for his income of 
fully $2,000 a year was being used to good 
advantage in the interest of his family. No, 
he did not think of adding to his acres, be- 
cause it seemed just about as much as he 
could handle well; labor was high and hard 
to get, and it was better to do well in a small 
way than to make a fizzle on a big scale. The 
eggs produced were in steady demand at high 
prices; he always raised high-class poultry, 
