. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 36 1M(](,IA-: I'.OOK. Mr. Rosii, 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 pickinir, #, or more than twelve cents per quart. From a patch only 108 x 213 feet in size, W. E. Penny|3acker, Pennsyhania, rc( ently sold in one season, 4,721 quarts for #461. From Boise, Idaho,comes an interesting strawberry item, relati
. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 36 1M(](,IA-: I'.OOK. Mr. Rosii, 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 pickinir, #, or more than twelve cents per quart. From a patch only 108 x 213 feet in size, W. E. Penny|3acker, Pennsyhania, rc( ently sold in one season, 4,721 quarts for #461. From Boise, Idaho,comes an interesting strawberry item, relative to the patch of J. 'aite, located a short distance from that city. Mr. Waite's patch measured just a little short of an acre and a cpiartcr. He marketed his first berries June ist, and from that date until July 7th he brought in 12,798 boxes, from which he realized And here's a big report from California : " We began to market our strawberries on March 30, 1907, and picked every day until October 25th. The area was two and three-cpiarter acres, and the variety l^randywine. The snles were 79,000 baskets (pints), for which we received #5,000 Su( h yields are not possil)le in the Fast, however I am a Pennss Ivani'in, and ; — (). A. L()(;ii:k. 1 myself have grown strawberries at the rate of 200 bushels per acre ; but one year 1 expected 300 bushels and got about fifty. It is never safe to count •mwrn^w^^ IM( KIN(; MAKSHALLS FOR MoTHHK's liESSKKT THE STRAWHKRRY 37 on too much, nor to be too sure of results, nor to increase the acreage unduly. Small patches, as a rule, are much more profitable than large ones. The expense of l)ringing an acre of berries into profitable bearing is greater than most folks think. There's the interest or rent on the land, the value of the plants set (whether you l^uy or raise them), the cost of heavy fertilizing, horse hire or keep, labor, wear and tear on implements, etc. •* You may safely estimate," says a s
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