. Biggle berry book; small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 36 BIGGLE BERRY BOOK Mr. Rosa, Delaware, reports that from one and one-fourth acres he sold, one summer, 169 crates of thirty-two quarts each, or 5,408 quarts. They were sold in Philadelphia and paid him net, not counting the picking, $, or more than twelve cents per quart. From a patch only 108 x 213 feet in size, W. E. Pennypacker, Pennsylvania, recently sold in one season, 4,721 quarts for $461. P>om Boise, Idaho,comes an interesting strawberry item, relative to the patch of I.
. Biggle berry book; small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 36 BIGGLE BERRY BOOK Mr. Rosa, Delaware, reports that from one and one-fourth acres he sold, one summer, 169 crates of thirty-two quarts each, or 5,408 quarts. They were sold in Philadelphia and paid him net, not counting the picking, $, or more than twelve cents per quart. From a patch only 108 x 213 feet in size, W. E. Pennypacker, Pennsylvania, recently sold in one season, 4,721 quarts for $461. P>om Boise, Idaho,comes an interesting strawberry item, relative to the patch of I. H .Waite, located a short PICKING MARSHALLS FOR •' mother's dessert distance from that city. Mr. Waite's patch measured just a little short of an acre and a quarter. He marketed his first berries June ist, and from that date until July 7th he brought in 12,798 boxes, from w^hich he realized $ And here's a big report from Cahfornia ; '' We began to market our strawberries on March 30, 1907, and picked every day until October 25th. The area was two and three-quarter acres, and the variety Brandy wine. The sales were 79,000 baskets (pints), for which we received $5,000 Such yields are not possible in the East, however 1 am a Pennsylvanian, and ; —O. A. Lobingier. I myself have grown strawberries at the rate of 200 bushels per acre ; but one year 1 expected 300 bushels and srot about fiftv. It is never safe to count. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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