. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. l8 BIGGLE BERRY BOOK. Edward T. Ingram We picked from our best oue-quarter acre iii bushels and 19 quarts. Pa. One thousand to 17,000 quarts to the acre at picking. The Dr. J. Stayman varieties that will not yield from 5,000 to 10,000 quarts to the acre in the average season are not worth growing. Kan. John Little Two hundred and fifty bushels, sometimes less. Can. I myself have grown strawberries at the rate of 200 bushels per acre, biat one year I expected 300 and got about 50. In each case Haverland and Bubach. Ro
. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. l8 BIGGLE BERRY BOOK. Edward T. Ingram We picked from our best oue-quarter acre iii bushels and 19 quarts. Pa. One thousand to 17,000 quarts to the acre at picking. The Dr. J. Stayman varieties that will not yield from 5,000 to 10,000 quarts to the acre in the average season are not worth growing. Kan. John Little Two hundred and fifty bushels, sometimes less. Can. I myself have grown strawberries at the rate of 200 bushels per acre, biat one year I expected 300 and got about 50. In each case Haverland and Bubach. Robert H. Gillin, a veteran grower of my own state, sold from one matted row of Gand}^, 323 feet long and 3 feet 4 inches wide, in 1892, 140 worth of fruit; the proceeds of the same row in 1893 were $50; in 1894, $45, which is at the average rate of |i,34o per acre per year. The berries were very large and fine and sold at a high price per quart—from 15 to 25 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, W. Atkinson co.
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