The KEY TO STRAWBERRY PROFITS 
The Everbearers 
The everbearers are so exceedingly pro- 
ductive and their fruiting season covers such 
a long period that it is absolutely necessary 
that the soil contain an abundance of plant- 
food and berry building material. 
A heavy dressing of manure should be 
plowed under and thoroughly worked into 
the soil before plants are set and a top dres- 
sing of manure applied soon after setting, 
spreading the coarse material close around 
the plants under the foliage to serve as 
mulching when they begin fruiting. 
The season the plants are set, all blossoms 
should be removed until July, after which 
they may be allowed to fruit to full capacity 
and they should then fruit heavily until 
freezing weather. The following year they 
will fruit abundantly from early summer 
until late fall with the exception of a short 
rest period during July. 
The everbearers may be grown either in 
hill, single-hedge or double-hedge row sys- 
tem, but the hill system has proved to be the 
most profitable. It is unnecessary to mow off 
the foliage of the everbearers. However, this 
may be done if desired the second vear after 
the early summer crop has been picked, at 
the time when the plants enter their rest 
period. If this is done prepare the bed the 
same as for standard varieties. 
If these simple instructions are followed, 
the everbearers will prove exceedingly pro- 
fitable either for home use or market. 
Irrigation 
Irrigation is an insurance policy on the 
crop, therefore, if you are situated so that 
vou can irrigate you will find it highly profit- 
able to do so. One can realize only through 
actual experience, the increased profits which 
result from irrigation. 
The two systems most generally used 
are the overhead or sprinkling system and the 
ditch or gravity system. With the overhead 
system, the water is applied in the form of 
fine rain. With the ditch system, shallow fur- 
rows or corrugations are made between the 
rows into which water is run until the entire 
ground is wet. The water may be obtained 
either from a well, lake, river or city water- 
works. It may be applied during the heat of 
the day if desired without injury to the crop, 
however, if applied at night, the evaporation 
is less. The ground should be cultivated as 
soon after irrigation as conditions will per- 
mit. 
(Note: The Skinner Irrigation Company, 
Troy, Ohio, manufacture one of the best 
overhead irrigation systems on the market 
and they will gladly furnish complete infor- 
mation on the subject.) 
Crop Rotation 
Crop rotation is very essential in Straw- 
berry growing. After plants have fruited two 
years, they should be plowed under and the 
ground planted to some other crop. This 
may be done as soon as they have finished 
their second year’s fruiting. 
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New Fair Haven 
A cross of 2 famous varieties, J. H. Hale 
Pe ach and South Haven. Can’t help but be a win- 
ner. 
Now, after nearly 20 years of testing, this new Peach is offered to you for 
the first time. With earliness, great fruitfulness, hardiness, flavor, shipping 
quality, beauty of form, and color. 
Ripening season, about one week before Hale-Haven. Productivity thor- 
oughly tested, heavy crops having been produced annually during test period. 
Fruit, larger than Hale-Haven or Red Haven, even when heavily loaded. 
Shape, nearly round. Color, bright golden with attractive bright red cheek. 
Skin, smooth and very tough. Ships exceedingly well. 
Flesh, medium yellow with moderate amount of red at the pit. Moderately 
fine textured, well flavored. It resists browning. Freestone. 
We heartily recommend that every fruit grower try this new variety. It may 
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Other Peaches 
CHAMPION GOLDEN JUBILEE 
Best early, white-fleshed freestone. Extra early. Moderately oval in 
Rich and juicy. August. Prices at \ shape; color vividly marked bright 
right. orange. Gives yields that are truly 
3 enormous, all high quality fruit. 
ELBERTA Delicious flavor. Excellent free- 
Large, oval-shaped, yellow free- stone. Good fresh or canned. Per- 
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Mid-September. Prices at right. right. 
Red Haven Peach 
This beautiful, flaming scarlet Peach is EXTRA EARLY, with all the 
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good Peaches, it will be enticingly colored with all-over flaming scarlet, ready 
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Red Haven has all the fa- 
mous Haven flavor and ad- 
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textured, with beautiful gold- 
en flesh. Excellent for eating 
fresh, excellent canner. Best 
quality in every way. Hardy. 
Excellent yielder. Bears 
young. FREE- 
STONE and SELF- 
POLLENIZING. 
A profit-mak 
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