News Advocate | 1922-12-14 | Page 16 | Very Unusual Section

J VERY JL UNUSUAL A T 0 A SINGLE strawberry plant sells for this plant ZA 2 was originated by harlow hoi low Rot rockhill Rock hlll ichill of iowa he pockets the money paid by a big fruit growing corporation po ration Rock hIlls one strawberry plant which brigs brt gs him a fortune is as large as a bushel basket experts predict that the descendants of this plant will revolutionize the strawberry industry producing larger better and more berries than any now grown commercially think it oer oner selling a single plant for seems I 1 like lika a page from frem a book of f fairy airy tales but true after all we live in an ail of fairy tales I 1 HUGE wire cage is la constructed entirely around an I 1 i bapple A apple tree on the farm of lewis mood near ferrell N i thia this naturally arouses the neighbors curiosity they ask questions are dumfounded to learn that mood blood recently sold a slip or graft graf C from ibis MIS tree free for a sum that makes the tree worth why because the tree produces an entirely new variety of fruit from it may come hundreds of thou thousands gands of trees bearing something new the mood alood apple and all au from one original ANCY prices paid for berry plants trees prize livestock FANCY and hardier grains emphasize how science and the farmer arc are trying their utmost to give the nation better food and more of it panl plant t life is our slave and almost miraculous is how it thrives and multiplies the soldiers sold aers of alexander the tho great filled their knapsacks with dates in india eating them as they returned borne bome they cast the seeds to the ground and from these seeds sprouted the date groves of syria its so will with most of the other forms of plant life that keep us alive today r