ALLEN’S BOOK OP BERRIES 
THE WORLD NEEDS FOOD 
And the world is willing to pay for it. Strawberries 
are food. Not only do they have food value of their 
own, but they help replace other more staple food, like 
wheat and meat, and the fruit acids, like oil to an 
engine, help keep the body fit. So ,when we raise straw¬ 
berries, we are helping to feed a hungry world. 
STRAWBERRIES FOR THE HOME GARDEN 
Nearly Everybody Likes Strawberries. The best 
strawberries are those that are grown in your own gar¬ 
den and picked fresh from the vines as you use them. 
They are delicious, and the joy of having nice fresh ber¬ 
ries for your own table fully repays for the small effort 
required to plant and grow them. By using the ever- 
bearer. Progressive, the berry season can be extended 
thru the summer and early fall, until freezing weather. 
Your Grocery Bill will be greatly lessened by hav¬ 
ing your own strawberry garden. Not only do you save 
the cost of the berries you usually buy, but you have 
more delicious fruit than you ever buy, especially at the 
high prices which are bound to prevail for berries the 
next year or two. You, also, save the cost of other 
things you don’t want, or need, now that you have plenty 
of strawberries. 
Preserved Strawberries are the most delicious of all 
the sweet foods we eat in winter. When you have them 
to buy at 20 cents or 30 cents per quart, you are not 
likely to preserve as many as you need. Have your 
own strawberry garden and there will be plenty for 
daily use on the table and for preserving also. 
GROWING STRAWBERRIES FOR PROFIT 
At no time in many years has the crop of plants and 
fruiting beds been so small. At no time has labor been 
so high and scarce. These conditions make it practi¬ 
cally certain that what you can grow will sell for a 
price high enough to yield a good profit. Everybody is 
making money in the large towns and cities and most 
people are willing to pay liberally for fancy strawber¬ 
ries, such as our plants, properly cared for, will yield. 
You can make money now growing strawberries—the 
amount being limited only to the quantity you can grow. 
Little Money is Needed To Start a berry patch. Be¬ 
sides the plants, a dibble, or trowel, for planting and a 
hoe and cultivator for working is all the equipment 
necessary. 
A Family Business. The small farmer with a large 
family is in a position to grow lots of berries now. He 
can utilize the labor of his family at comparatively 
easy work and at a business which will pay well. The 
work is healthy, the pay is good, and the children can 
work in the open air and with their parents. 
The Boy Can Be Kept on the Farm by getting him 
interested. A patch of strawberries, say to 1 acre 
will afford him pleasant, easy, intelligent work and at 
this time, will yield profit enough to keep him inter¬ 
ested in the farm, a chance that doesn’t often happen, 
as most farm work is less remunerative than other 
lines of endeavor. 
Real Estate Values are increased by growing inten¬ 
sive crops like strawberries. So much can be done on 
a small piece of ground, that often rich, high priced 
land in and near cities and large towns, can be profit¬ 
ably planted to strawberries. 
