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American Express Company. B. Johnson also shipped by that 

 company to the latter points. The berries arrived in good order 

 and sold satisfactorily. The Xew York, Xewark, Pliiladelphia and 

 Boston market took large quantities. Twenty thousand 36-quart 

 crates were shipped and an average of 10 cents per quart was 

 received. 



"The profitable experience of growers in 1893,1891 and 1895 

 resulted in increased care and cultivation and' more acres devoted to 

 strawberrj' raising, with more good berries to the acre than ever 

 before. A publication l)y the American Express Company giving 

 addresses of growlers and shippers was distributed in all important 

 points in the United States, and in 1896 the demand for strawber- 

 ries exceeded the supply, and western buyers could not be supplied. 



Best quality berries sold a 

 $7.00 per 36-quart crates 

 in Oswego ; 22,000 crates 

 were shipped from the 

 county. The average 

 price received was 12 cents 

 per quart. In June an ex- 

 hibition was held under the 

 direction of the late Jas. 

 Hart at Hart's place, in Os- 

 wego, at which the "straw- 

 berries of our daddies," 

 size of a pea, and " Gandy 

 *g i prizes," four inches in cir- 

 cumference, were shown. 



"In the year 1899, in 

 '6i — Strawberries packed for fancy market. The ye^^viou^G to efforts made 



quart boxes are wrapped in naraffine paper. . . , ^ , i a 



^ ii i u/ J ^ by the agents of the x\mer- 



ican Express Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., Buffalo, ^''. Y., Worcester, Mass., 

 and Auburn, N. Y., were added to tlie list of markets for Oswego 

 berries. In consequence of this additional stinnilation, men who 

 had become discouraged many years ago returned to the growing 

 of strawd^erries, beincr made to realize at last that a demand has 

 been created for their kind of berries that far exceeds the supply. 



