nt 
250 PLANTS 
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Enough to supply a 
family of five with lus¬ 
cious berries all summer 
and fall first year set. 
STROMER'S 
Improved Strain 
Mastodon 
ONLY $3*25 
LESS DISCOUNT 
Giant 
Improved 
Strain 
MASTODON 
Here's How 
Mastodon Does It 
I Plant this spring—1939. 
O Pick first crop—July to 
^ winter—1939. 
O Pick second crop^June 
^ —1940. 
Coe^w^ea^Utta 
4 
Pick third crop—August 
to winter—1940. 
7 
3 Full Crops in 18 Months 3 Big Profits 
When we tell you that Mastodon does produce three full crops 
in 18 months; it is the largest berry grown; bears in 60 days after 
planting; is on excellent shipper; brings more per quort; and is a 
delicious home use berry—you probably won't believe it unless you 
hove grown them yourself—and we don't blame you, but read 
what other folks hove to soy. 
Mastodon does not require special soil, care or petting. Sell for 
30c to 50c per quart. Mastodon sells like "hot cakes" on roadside 
stands. Commences to bear in 60 days after you set them. We 
picked 181 quarts of berries from I ’/z acres on November 1st, and 
on November 2nd the ground was frozen solid. This frost is what 
stopped the Mastodon. Light frost will not injure them at all. 
We often have folks ask us "How many quarts will 100 Masto¬ 
don give us a week?" We have watched our Mastodon fields this 
summer, and find that they will bear 3 quarts 2 times a week. 
If it is cool, they will not do quite so well. It takes about 8000 
plants to set an acre, so that makes 480 quarts per week per acre, 
and sell for 25c per quart, making $120.00 per acre per week. 
Mr. Geo. Stromer. Collins, N. V., September 6, 1938. 
Dear Sir: Last spring I purchased 2,000 Mastodon Everbearing 
Strawberry Plants of you. 1 set them out May 13th, and had the 
first strazvberry shortcake July eoth. Berries were ripe 60 days 
after planting. People were amazed to see such wonderful plants. 
They beat the pictures in the catalog three to one. They look like 
year-old plants. I counted 46 berries on one plant and 45 on an¬ 
other plant of all sizes. I am selling Strawberries for 30c per quart. 
Yours very truly, ERWIN J. BECKERICH. 
Mr. George Stromer. Collins, N. Y., October 14, 1938. 
Dear Sir: Again I am writing you in regard to the 2,000 Ever- 
bearing Strawberry Plants I bought of you last spring. On October 
6th and 3th, 1938, the thermometer dropped to 20 degrees. The 
ground was frozen hard, and the zuater had ice three-fourths of an 
inch thick on it. The neighbors said that killed the Strawberries, 
but not one berry was hurt. I picked them and sold them to Cecil 
Pendleton’s, of Collins, N. Y., for 30c per quart. And Belle Pen¬ 
dleton and Francis Beckerich, both of Collins, N. Y., counted 63 
berries on one plant. They believe the plants would bear berries 
at the North Pole. I sold 12 quarts of Strawberries on Septem¬ 
ber 30th at 30c per quart. The color and size were grand. 
Very truly yours, ERWIN J. BECKERICH. 
A REAL WONDER 
MASTODON PRICES 
It is the largest everbearing berry grown. Mastodon is the most prolific, 
the finest, the most beautiful berry with the real Strawberry flavor. It is a 
berry that bears early and late; one that can be picked all spring and sum¬ 
mer. Many of the berr:es grow as large as a silver dollar, and are just as 
perfect. Mastodon is the real marvel in Strawberries; nothing like it has 
ever been known. Plants that were set in May this year have produced as 
high as 3 quarts per plant. A field of this Mastodon in bearing is a sight 
never to be forgotten. 
25.$ 0.65 
50. 1.10 
100. 1.60 
200 . 3.00 
250 . 3.25 
10,000 
300 . 
. . .$ 3.95 
400 . 
. . . 4.30 
500 . 
. . . 4.55 
1,000 . 
. . . 9.00 
5,000 . 
. . . 47.50 
. . $80.00 
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