Creston Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2013-09-27
issued: 1911-06-16
description: All the News of the Creston District
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note: 4& 3RD: Year. For Tfe ifc/ Weather Different ^bapes in Fh ^^crii Also a Complete Line of Summer shirts for CTXJf Including all the latest Patterns and Colors S* A. Speers &&^&&9G^Q)Qi^$mmimMmmmsQG^&^ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½$<$Q^ iHomfe of the Big Red Berry One of the busiest men at Shis -ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ particular time of the ear in ^tbe" Creston district is Er. ^ O. (i / Wigen, the straw- err^ king- of the Koqtenays. A 'Noerson who has nbt^per- onalSr visited' Hkbb Wigen ranch annot have the,*least concep- ion_ pi the complete Equipment vhick'fexists for .growing, gathering., ahd^m'arSsi^g^t^^lus- ions iruit. Mr. .Wigen ;has been On "this" r^ctflbr^niiie-years; nd has *ijbrbught it^up to a er*1 high' sStatei of * cultivation* Ee ihaVm.,att"iour "acresf of prof ucing/ strawberries. -TheJ *Par- ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ on Tne*-qfiatterr jarwcular land of berry gives ultyr five weeks of picking. Mr. Wigen has taken off one ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½acre ioOO crates of berries/One. quarter of ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ .this' acre" was' 'Parson Beauty/; while the balance was "Magoon" and "Clyde" and ^'Senator Dnnlop." 'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ This ranch also produced one ear off a-quarter of an acre f raspberry bushes 125 crates, irhich brought 82.50 per crate [up,>netting the owner $300. Another good strawberry, is (the "Glenmary," and/'Lady Thompson" of which there is 'one-sixth of an acre. Strawberry plants are supposed' to be good if grown for 3 years, ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ut Mr. Wigen has berry plants [six years of age still producing well. Thompson No. 2 is another strawberry^ considered to ibe very good; it is a very clean [ibeny but is sometimes subject to fungus. This "ranch has just the "Bountiful" These are very prolific and will bear heavily the first year. These berry crops present a most unique and artistic appearance, being planted with mathematical pre-* cision in long, straight rows. The berry crates used in the shipping are also- …
note: Print Run: 1909-1983 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Creston (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0172900
language: English
lat: 49.0975
long: -116.5130560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Creston, B.C. : Creston Publishing Co.
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