554 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



here in 1 893,* the average 

 of 58 replies of berry grow- 

 ers was 2,493 quarts. One 

 gave his jield (which must 

 have been on a small patch 

 and amply multiplied) as 

 9,900 quarts, whilst another 

 confessed to but 576 quarts. 

 A good yield for the second 

 crop is 3,000 quarts, or 90 

 to 100 bushels per acre. 

 Willis P. Rogers tells me 

 that his largest field crop of 

 Ohio, the third year after 

 planting, was 16,000 quarts 

 on four acres, and a half acre 

 of this land was not up to 

 the standard. From exten- 

 sive inquiries of evaporator 

 men, however, I find it to 

 be a general opinion that 

 the average crops of the 

 country, one year with 

 another, will not exceed 

 1,200 quarts per acre, or 300 

 pounds of dried product. 



The harvesting of tlie 

 crop costs too mach. The 

 price paid by evaporating 

 men this year for Ohios and 

 Greggs was 4^ and 5 cents 

 a quart, yet the grower gen- 

 erally had to pay 2 cents a 

 quart for picking. Here is 

 an advantage of the Gregg, 

 for pickers can generally 

 do as well in picking it for 1^ cents as in picking the Ohio for 2 

 cents. To lessen the cost of harvesting and to overcome the dififi- 

 culty of securing pickers in remote places, the berry harvester has 



* Bulletin 57, " Raspberries and Blackbenies," by Fred W. Card. 



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