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COMMERCIAL PLANTINGS FULLY 
MATURED AT MINIMUM EXPENSE 
Rotogravure Section Of 
Detroit News May 
Encourage New 
Growers 
In the December 3rd issue of 
The Detroit News, Rotogravure 
Section, is a pictorial article en¬ 
titled “She Gave Up City Life 
to Farm.” 
For those who are inexperi¬ 
enced in the culture of the Boy¬ 
senberry, this article may offer 
encouragement. Only four years 
ago, this specialist of the Cali¬ 
fornia Boysenberry in a North¬ 
ern climate was a pioneer in 
this new voca.tion. 
At that time, there was no in¬ 
formation available on the 
growing of the Boysenberry in 
a Northern climate. All of my 
experiments had to be conduct¬ 
ed at my own expense and in 
the beginning it was very ques¬ 
tionable whether or not the 
Boysenberry would grow in 
Michigan. 
Now with a source of inform¬ 
ation unequalled by any other 
grower in the Eastern part of 
the United States, inexperienced 
growers today have only to fol¬ 
low instructions and proceed. It 
is now a proven fact that the 
California Boysenberry will 
grow in a Northern climate and 
produce prolifically. 
MOTOR NEWS Releases 
Editorial “Now It’s 
Boysenberries” 
Those located in Michigan 
and Detroit especially, may be 
interested in reading the article 
in Motor News by Bessie S. 
Henley from which the follow¬ 
ing excerpts are taken: 
It’s the executive or the pro- 
i fessional man who is evincing 
i the keenest interest in Boysen¬ 
berries. He can buy the orig¬ 
inal Boysenberry plants right 
here in Michigan. Less than 
four years ago Irene Jarvis of 
Lapeer, Michigan, saw the pos¬ 
sibilities in Boysenberries and 
did something about it. But pos¬ 
sibilities alone wouldn’t have 
been to much advantage if cer¬ 
tain other combinations of good 
fortune—and good judgment— 
hadn’t been with her. A flair for 
foods was perhaps her first as¬ 
set. Or perhaps first was a farm 
of a hundred and five acres 
tha,t had “belonged” in the fam¬ 
ily for seventy-five years—a 
farm that nature must have 
planned for Boysenberry crops, 
for through it runs the Flint 
River that supplies irrigation, 
and on it is a railroad siding 
that promises future possibili¬ 
ties in shipping, and on it, too, 
are other facilities for a perfect 
dovetailing of resources. Even 
fertlizer isn’t a problem there, 
for the Jarvis farm carries a 
herd of prize Hereford cattle 
that are beautiful to look at. 
With experts in horticulture 
to assist Miss Jarvis, she has 
within three years developed 
the one commercial producing 
Boysenberry Plantation in 
Michigan. In fact. Boysenberry 
Plantation, Lapeer, Michigan, is 
the largest plantation of its 
kind in the eastern half of the 
United States. Keen ability to 
plan and to execute, foresight, 
courage, grit, a bubbling en¬ 
thusiasm, good judgment, hard 
labor—all have gone into mak¬ 
ing Boysenberry Plantation of 
Lapeer the success that it is. 
Strange that California Boy¬ 
senberry plants had to come to 
Michigan to be reshipped all 
over the United States and Can¬ 
ada. But when all other local¬ 
ities have been supplied and are 
in turn supplying with their 
own stock—“So what?” we ask. 
“Will your wonderful set-up 
here go stale and unprofitable 
with the widespread competi¬ 
tion that is bound to build up?” 
But Miss Jarvis, super-busi¬ 
ness woman that she is, has 
looked well to the future. 
“Have you tasted Boysenberry 
juice?” she asked. “There’s no 
limit to what the American 
public can consume in bever¬ 
ages, you know. The United 
States is a thirsty nation and 
Boysenberry juice is a great 
beverage. I hope to be one of 
the first in Michigan to intro¬ 
duce it,” she added. 
What Other Growers 
Are Doing 
Excerpt from Capper’s Farm¬ 
er, February, 1940. “S. D. Story 
and Son, Oklahoma, picked and 
sold close to $5,000 worth of 
fruit from 11 acres. The best 
returns yet obtained by the 
Storys was from the first acre 
set. It produced 350 crates and 
fruit sales exceeded $800.00.” 
Last season, a grower from 
Portland, Oregon, reported a 
vield of four tons to the acre 
on a twenty acre planting 
wi hout irrigation. What other 
Growers are doing, you can 
also do if you will take care of 
your Boysenberry acreage. 
Spray in the dormant stage 
with lime sulphur. It is one of 
the most important sprays of 
the season. 
How to develop a Boysenber¬ 
ry Plantation as quickly as pos¬ 
sible at a minimum expense is 
the question asked by prospec¬ 
tive growers everywhere. 
First, consider the purpose 
for which the planting is to be 
made. Decide upon the amount 
of money to be invested and 
commence with as large a plant¬ 
ing as one can afford. It should 
be remembered, however, that 
one acre of Boysenberries well 
taken care of is to be preferred 
over that of several acres han¬ 
dled in a haphazard manner. 
The main object, of course, is 
to make the planting “full 
bearing” as soon as possible. 
Figuring 435 plants to an 
acre, the ideal commercial 
planting would be to alternate 
with a full two-year old plant 
and a Strong No. 1 two-year 
transplant. In one year, half 
the Plantation would be full 
bearing while in two years the 
entire acreage would be on a 
profit basis. 
Canning concerns and juice 
! manufacturers are pushing 
“quick productivity” of Boysen¬ 
berry plantings so the planting 
suggested above is quite ideal, ji 
For others, who are just J| 
enthusiastic in being one of tfl 
first in a great new enterprii||| 
we suggest the alternating of^ 
Strong No. 1 two-year trans^ 
plant with a No. 1 tip. This 
type of planting also has con¬ 
siderable merit in that the two- 
year transplants would come in¬ 
to bearing one full year ahead 
of the tips. Of course, a planting 
made entirely of Strong No. 1 
two-year transplants would be 
preferable but at the same time, 
if a larger acreage is desired at 
a minimum investment, the al¬ 
ternating plan can be adopted 
most satisfactorily. By this 
method, the additional money 
could be used to purchase tips. 
Like small livestock of a reg¬ 
istered herd of cattle, tip-rooted 
plants grow into money for 
their owner. 
Next to a Strong No. 1 Two-year transplant, a tiprooted plant is 
the finest plant one can buy, especially if it is NORTHERN- 
GROWN. Following the propagation, the plants are irrigated so 
there is sufficient moisture for immediate root development. 
