
after all the plants are only a small part of the expense, and 
a few dollars saved now may cost you heavily at fruiting 
time. 
With only one exception, the pictures published here are 
identical with those published nearly 40 years ago. The 
articles are reprinted word for word. The pictures that had 
to be made new are the two of the boy and the horse, and 
they are so nearly like the originals that we ourselves would 
not recognize the difference except by having the two side by 
side. 
Read them and laugh for a good laugh is good for the soul, 
especially in these harried times. 














THE FIRST AND SECOND FIDDLER 
The first fiddler is a high priced fellow. He 
has won a reputation for furnishing fine music 
and he need not and will not play for less than 
$25 per night—often much more than that. They 
send for him from far and near. He takes 
pride in his business, uses only the best fiddle 
to be obtained, and never furnishes second-class 
music. He finds a world of pleasure in his busi- 
ness, has a delightful home and pleasant sur- 
roundings, with a good bank account, and looks 
at his whole life work as a magnificent enter- 
tainment. 
The second fiddler, with which the world seems 
abundantly supplied, plays for his supper (gen- 
erally the second table), and picks up such odd 
jobs as he can get a pittance for doing, lives in 
a hovel, wears poor clothes and sees disappoint- 
ment and gloom everywhere. 
Young man, do you see a moral in this com- 
parison? Look around you and see how many 
“second fiddlers” there are in the berry busi- 
ness in your community. Ask your grocer who 
is growing strictly fancy fruit and you will be 
surprised at his answer. 
Do you not see an opening for a clean, neat 
and profitable business? Don’t be a wage earner 
all your life, but get the best piece of land you 

DAN PATCH 1:5614 It ge 
ceo : = can and stock it with thoroughbred plants and 
This is Dan Patch. He holds the fast- pays a big dividend on the investment, pitch in. Don’t play second fiddle. 
est record of any harness horse in the 
world. He is bred up from a long line of 
ideal ancestors that also hold fast rec- 
ords. With such _ skillful breeding by 
selection and with the assistance of a 
careful driver it has been made _ possi- 
ble for Dan Patch to pace a mile in one 
minute, fifty-six and one-fourth seconds. 
On account of his high breeding and 
speed combined. Mr. M. Savage, 
proprietor of the International Stock 
Food Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, paid 
the enormous sum of $60,000 for him; 
he is now valued at $150,000. Many of 
his colts bring $1,000 to $1,500 when 
one day old. What difference does the 
first cost make so long as his offspring 
beside winning all the big purses, never 
having lost a race? He only weighs 
1,200 pounds; his owner was not buy- 
ing common horse flesh at $50 per 
pound, but the pedigree, showing his get, 
was what placed the value. Size and 
weight is a small consideration; minutes 
and seconds are what count. The great 
horsemen are now breeding to this won- 
derful speeder, paying fabulous prices, 
hoping to get something to still beat his 
record. It’s just as impossible to win 
a big purse in the great horse races with 
a weak and poorly developed horse as it 
is to win big purses in the great straw- 
berry race with weak and poorly devel- 
oped plants. 
If there is anything you don’t understand write 
me full particulars and my experience 1s at 
your service. It affords me a world of pleasure 
to give pointers and boost a young man into 
place as “first fiddler” in the berry business. 

LORETTA D., AMERICA’S CHAMPION DAIRY COW 
This is Loretta D., the beautiful Jersey that easily 
won the well-earned title, “Champion Cow of the 
World,” during the 120-days’ test at the St. Louis 
Exposition. She gave 5,802 pounds of milk, which 
made 330 pounds of butter, with a net profit of $67.74, 
at the same time consuming less feed than any other 
cow in the competition. A young son of Loretta D. 
recently sold for $1,250 to head one of the best Jersey 
herds in New York State. The gland system of this 
wonderful milk producer has remarkable power to 
convert food into butter fat. This power is inherited 
from her ancestors, as she comes from one of the best 
bred and most carefully selected herds in the country. 
Dairymen are willing to pay fabulous prices for her 
calves in order to improve their own herds and thus 
increase the butter-making power at a less cost for 
Loretta D., America’s Champion Dairy Cow feed. 
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THREE RIVERS, MICHIGAN 
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