Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-06-11

There's naught to compare for berry worth while:
The reddest strawberry
The sweetest strawberry
The Vashon strawberry which grows our isle
Let apples bring fame TO the Vale of Wenaciee-
Vancouver may claim she's the home Of the prune-
Alfalfa may gladden. the Yakima rancher-
The smOkestacks at Longvew may reach to the moon
Tacoma may boast that she still THE Mountain
Seattle may shout she's the Port of Success
Spokanes water power may outrival Mag
But Vashon isle Strawberries beat the whole mess
III eat it in shorcake,
I'll eat it in pudding,
In pie from the vine, or in any old Style
The luscious berry,
The peerless strawberry,
The Vashon strawberry which grows our isle
To satisfy yourself that this picture isn't overrawn you
are invited to and pay the island visit If you
cant the next best thing to send in your
about this program and maybe you'll be of the lucy
ones to get a crate of these berre, as gift
Vashon island lies entirely within King county 1t is east
y accessible to both Tacoma and Seattle 1t only couple
Of miles from the island to either city From the center of the
island each city equally have spoken briefly of
fruit industry and now wish to tell you Of our greenhouses
The Bea greenhouse the largest in the northwest 1t has
over 225OOO square feet under glass From this huge plant
under glass there constantly going truck loads of maid
enhar ferns tea carnations hydrangas lilies and other
flowers too numerous TO mention There also forth to-
mao cucumber and other deaceS of season. please
the palate and tickle the tongue of the eastern epeure In
addition to this Mother plant there about fifty other
greenhouse plants on the island bringing smiles TO the faces of
their they watch their flowers vegetables grow
and also corresponding growth in the size of their bank
accounts There are three why this island green
is cheap fuel and the third the mness of winters
making but low degree of artificial heat necessary
inside growth OF flower and plant All the greenhouse
has do in the middle of the winter give Old Sol Just
little occasional boost and tire original Heat Gver will do the
rest One of the greenhouse at Burton j. H. Hart, is
going ship several selected crates of his Inside grown to-
matoes to YOU if you'll write what you think of this pro
gram.
uasmuch | must to the island in the morning
TO face the inhabitants thereof not going say that the
premier business OF the island poultry and egg production
but you'll find it's the truth If you make investigation
There 100000 laying hens Vashon island The Of
fetal records these hens making each year all over the
world has already put Vashon island class by self The
world knows such records hens making in
tests wherever they entered At the Puyaup experiment
station, in competition with the T. and Canada Of
Naon island hens first prize in 1922 being entered by
Frank H. Gilbert These hens held the worlds record and
sold for %i00 each In 1924 pen of Vaon island hens
entered by j. Ageo Carried away the sweepstakes under the
competition as the Gilbert pen Mrs Covingtou II
ice picked up Of her pue sent over to Puyaup and
brought back the second ribbon last year laying 325 eggs
in just year H. G. Beal l is Of the islands oldest
and most conscientious breeders lie has entered his pule
all the aud south aud has first prizes from half
dozen different states Mr. Beal Bergen County
N j. contest which is Of the largest in the country lie
won the interstate contest of Texas for two consecutive years
and has the high record hen Of the He End last year
in the Puyaup contest and had high ben IN the State of Mis-
souri, Prof Lppnco 81 the e. OF Calf who regarded
Of the greaet poultry authorities in the world says
Mr. Bea mas the most complete SET OF trpnest records ne has
Mr. Beal has already shipped 10000 pcdt
greed this season to all parts of the s aud Caualu
Another of the bc~ equipped poultry plants in Washing
ton If not in the T. S. is that Of Highland Pork Ranch
Portage Mr. f. Morgan the proprietor holds world record
for the see he gets for eggs According Mr. Curtis editor
Of Reliable Poultry Journal there such records any
where in the world Mr. Morgan has sold dolcE eggs
this at $500 per egg The hens that lay these f25
all 300 egqcrs. Take hen and figure
what she do that basis At s2j per egg and 800 egg
per year such bird would give her the end Of
year ggs worth 1900 Ten such would return the own
err $4,000 each year or exactly the salary Of President Cool
dge If you have given up running or President of the u
ai You need TO do TO buy Hhoru hens and they will
reiun to you ON this basis hr same annual income that Mr
Coolidge has, and at the time you wouldn't need 10
worry about senator Pepper losing Penuy yana Senator
Bob Staufieid losing the state Of Oregon
On Vaon island there is laid each year about 30 million
eggs These eggs uniformly white II they could
be- strung like pearls end to end they would make string ~
brad. long enough go around the neeb If he ward That
string Of white pearls would reach from Seattle to Portlaot
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