BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Getting the Money. 
A Lifetime Experience at Your Service 
Any question pertaining to the growing of berries 
will be gladly answered. Ask those questions in 
January, February and March. Later we will be 
so very busy that perhaps we may not be able to 
answer you very promptly. 
The known standard varieties are the ones to 
plant, unless you wish to experiment. 
Congenial Work for the Women 
After a patch of strawberries is set and they 
commence to show new life with their nice green 
glossy leaves, and in a few days with their buds 
and flowers, then the clever housekeeper can do 
her part. These blossoms should be picked off 
and the little weeds that commence to show 
around the plant and everywhere need to be de- 
stroyed, with a nice sharp, clean, bright new hoe, 
it is no hard task to keep ahead of them. At first 
there is not much to do. But do It. Then when 
the runners commence, if they are everbearing, 
they should be cut off. If other kinds, place them 
around in the rows till you think you have enough 
started for your next year's crop, which should be 
10 to 12 new on each original plant set. Do not 
let your row get too heavy, or dense with too many 
plants, or your next crop of berries is apt to be 
small. The good housekeeper can do this and do 
it right. 
The very first thing that gets ripe, and they 
will belong to her in addition to the eggs and 
butter, and other things she has grown. One acre 
of strawberries will make a good sized bank ac- 
count which will make her independent, with which 
many hearts can be made glad. 
Advertising 
We try to save as much of this as we possibly 
can, and give it to you in plants and expect you 
to do our advertising — you know and have seen 
the wonderful results you have had with them. 
We often get letters telling us they have bought 
of this and that nursery and wish to try ours. 
MOTket (;ar<leners, who are not aInMldy on our 
Bt<*ady customer list, we W4>uld be pleiiHed to have 
write and sret our prices in 1,000 lots. You're the 
fellows that know stock when you see it. 
Getting Full Market Returns 
Be honest in packing. A nice clean package, 
without stains or finger marks, showing a careful 
hand at the finish will greatly help sales. Have 
everything neat — no poor or broken boxes, no soft 
or green berries, leaves or other rubbish. Stencil 
or mark your package plainly, and nail your cover 
on square with short nails. 
$300 to $1,200 on One Acre set with our Quality 
Plants is no uncommon occurrence. It is the 
special care that we have taken with them that 
brings such results. This is easy money. It comes 
early in the season. Almost the first real money 
crop of the year, and is a great help in many ways. 
We All Like Them 
strawberries are relished by most every living 
person that has good red blood flowing in his 
veins. When mother says "Short Cake," there is 
life in the camp, and that is but one of the uses, 
you can put them to. 
Home Life of the Fruit Grower' 
The life of a fruit grower and his surroundings 
are most pleasing. Your fruit comes and goes in 
a short time, always ready cash, no trade or 
barter. 
We own our farm, the soil of which is ideally 
perfect for the growing of THE VERY BEST 
PLANTS. Our office force consists of the home 
family as much as possible. We announce to you 
in the papers with as little space as we think we 
can attract your attention. Never use a whole 
page to tell you when a smaller space will do the 
same thing, and use papers of national repute 
only, whose representatives come here and look 
over our fields, pick, taste, and take home samples 
of our berries to their mothers and sweethearts. 
Personal representatives from Farm and Home, 
Orange Judd Farmer, Farm Journal, American 
Agriculturist, Successful Farming, Country Gen- 
tleman, and others are regular visitors at our 
home and farm every year. They usually come in 
the fall about hog killing time, when spare ribs 
and strawberries make a nice combination, and we 
always have a very pleasant time with them. We 
would be justified in using whole pages of all the 
leading papers to let everybody know, but that 
costs lots of money and we rely upon you to let 
your neighbor know. 
