Proven Berry Plants i r KNOTT’S BERRY PLACE / i Trees and Vines 
roots, often as large as a man’s arm, 
run deep into the soil, and as they are 
very soft and spongy, decay in a few 
months after taking the rhubarb out, 
leaving channels into the soil to carry 
water and air down to the subsoil; all of 
which is good for the orchard. Also 
with rhubarb tons and tons of leaves 
are left in the field to be worked into 
the top soil at each cutting, and as 
there are from three to four cuttings 
each season, the vegetable matter that 
is put back into the soil in this way is 
no small item. 
Either will make you a good profitable 
inter-crop, and a combination of both 
berries and rhubarb will make you a 
year-round income. Think it over, and 
then come and see us or write us about 
your problem. 
The Poultry and Cherry Rhubarb Com¬ 
bination. Poultry and rhubarb make a 
fine combination because the poultry 
furnishes the fertilizer needed by the 
rhubarb, while the leaves, which are 
waste in rhubarb growing, make excel¬ 
lent greens for the chickens and the 
rhubarb itself is a very profitable crop. 
It is an easy crop to grow and one that 
is not exacting in attention required. 
Should you be especially busy with the 
chickens it can always wait a few days 
without serious loss. With plenty of 
fertilizer it produces enormous crops of 
both stems and leaves. One successful 
poultryman, who also grows Cherry rhu¬ 
barb, says the leaves make an excellent 
green feed and worm remedy too. 
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1 Poultrymen | 
5 Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Davis of 
2 2005 West 17th Street, Santa Ana, 2 
2 Calif., have been in the poultry 2 
EE business a long time. Last year 
2 they planted a patch of Cherry — 
□ rhubarb. This fall Mrs. Davis told 2 
= us that the rhubarb leaves made =j 
2 the finest green feed they had ever 2 
55 used; that they now had the 2 
2 healthiest and finest lot of pullets □ 
55 they had ever raised; and that she s 
□ felt sure the rhubarb leaves ac- 2 
2 counted for the improvement in EE 
2 their poultry. 2 
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PROM SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY 
The Cherry Rhubarb we got from you 
in February is doing just fine. The 
row is three or four feet wide now and 
it stands nearly four feet high. The 
stems are thick through and eighteen 
inches long, and I am wondering if it 
would not be alright to start selling it. 
It is planted on rich river bottom land 
and we have watered it every week. We 
have never seen any like this in the 
stores around here. We have been 
using it for some time and like it very 
much. MRS. R. G. WOODARD. 
Livingston, Calif. 
WINTER INCOME FOR THE BERRY GROWER 
The time is past when the farmer can make enough from one crop to last through 
the year. Instead, we need something to sell every month. Rhubarb for winter— 
berries for spring and summer. 
Ten Pounds Cherry Rhubarb per Plant—Pirst Cutting Eight Months After Planting 
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