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TRUE-TONAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS
Supplement Your Salary
The work is easy, healthy, pleasant, and can be
done at odd chances. To the man who works in an
office all day. it will be an especial pleasure to get
out in the garden and make money while he t^kes
his much-needed exercise. A Strawberry- garden
offers the best possible chance for the man with a
little land, to supplement his salary. You can sell
tancv berries at a good price anytime and with a
little common sense and good plants, you can grow
fancy berries — and make some extra money. Let
us help you do it.
A Family Business
The small farmer with a large family and little
land can grow berries profitably, because Straw-
berries give a larger return per acre than almost
any other farm crop. Again, it provides healthy,
agreeable work for the children, right at home,
working together with father or mother. They can
help and will be glad to do it. Ask them about it.
Read about our collection D, page 6.
Strawberries in Young Orchard
There is no better way to utilize the ground in a
voung orchard than by growing Strawberries. (See
picture.) Make the berries pay for growing the
orchard. Berries give a quick return and will bring
in money while you are waiting for the orchard to
come into bearing. They not only help pay for the
orchard, but they are good for the orchard. Straw-
berries should be thoroughly cultivated and there
is nothing better for the orchard than this. Tillage
is manure and. the more we cultivate, the better
both Strawberries and orchards will be.
Double Real-Estate Value
Strawberries increase the value of your farm.
There is no better way to dispose of real estate at
a good price, than by setting it to Strawberries.
Not only can you get a much higher price for such
land, but it is much easier to sell. If you doubt the
added value a Strawberry patch affords, try to
buy some land set to Strawberries, just before they
begin to fruit. Here's the experience of one man:
February 3. 1916. Merrimack County. N. H.
Dear Sirs: The only Strawberry plants I remember were
from your concern, some few years ago when I thought I would
ike to raise them for money, but after everything was ready
One of our customers picking Dunlap at the rate of
about 1,500 quarts per acre at a single picking, and
ready to make delivery to a nearby town.
for a heavy crop the following spring, a gentleman came along
and bought my farm. Presumably the acre of Strawberries
sold the place, and at a handsome profit. Yours respectfully.
J. T. Tlrcott.
But, even if the price is higher, it is a good propo-
sition for the buyer. He gets the land and a valuable
crop just coming on that will help him greatly in
paying for the land, or in equipping his farm. Real-
estate men and others often plant orchards to help
sell land. Strawberries would be just as good, or
even better, on small tracts of land already quite
valuable.
OUR PLANTS ABOVE REPROACH
We are not much on testimonials, but can say that your
plants formerly have been as near perfect as any we have ever
seen and came as near all living as any we ever bought, and
your packing and count we consider above reproach. — John
T. Elrod. Ripley County. Ind.. January 18, 1016.