Show THE PROFIT OF BERRY CULTURE The noted horticulturist M A Thayer of Sparta Wisconsin offers i the foDowing timely suggestions to wideawaka farmers With the new year resolutions SOul be made and plans formed for a berry I garden in the spring Every enterprising farmer every owner of 0 village home should make this resolution Every ambitious tray o girl should be encouraged in fruit growing and have a little garden with the profits thereof all their own Business men professional men or teachers almost broken with care may regain failing health add years of pleasure to life and put money in their purses by growing small fruits The demand for good fruit has never yet been supplied Many shrewd farmers realize this and arc making more money from a few acres of berries than from all the rest of the farm The greatest pleasure in fruit growing or farming comes from an understand ing of the simpe natural laws that underlie and enter into < l products of the soil The greatest success comes from the correct application of these principles Soils are good o poor according to the fertility hey contain They are valuable only as that fertility fer-tility is made available for plant food The application of this knowledge constitutes common sense farming and brings success A fruit pant is a kind of machine capable of doing much or little work depending on food moisture care training and environments The work consists in converting the refuse animal and vegetable matter into forms of health the most wholesome whole-some and delicious known to man into forms o beauty filled with nectar I tinted with sunshine ministering to al our senses and drawing us ever upward ever nearer the soul of nature and the o I great Divine The first essential in growing berries I is to subscribe for one two or more I best farm or horticultural papers They are faithful messengers directing direct-ing us to success In no other way can the principles of rural pursuits the knc < wledge of how best to grow fruits flowers grains and domestic animals be grasses domestc EO easily obtained They give us best advice most approved ap-proved etodS the experience of sue cessful men and the important events of this busy world Verily a good newspaper is worth more to the average farmer than the best horse G the farm |