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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Sold 1,425 boxes, at an average price of 24ff cts., . $355 72 

 4,000 plants, 50 cts. per hundred, . . 20 00 



bales, ........ tjpoio 7 Z 



Balance in favor of crop, 



96 75 



$278 97 



The above crop, viz., 1,425 boxes on thirty-two rods, equals 

 7,120 boxes per acre, which, at the price received, would amount 

 to a product of $1,787.36 per acre. 



The variety was the Wilson's Albany, which I have cultivated 

 for ten years. I have also raised many other fancy sorts, as the 

 Triomphe de Gand, Russell's, Jucunda, Agriculturist, etc, and 

 have discarded all for the Wilson's, as that strawberry brings as 

 much in our market as a better one does, and bears more than 

 double any other variety that I ever tried. The plants were set 

 in the spring, about the first of May, in two rows, two feet apart 

 each way, then leaving a space of three feet, then two rows more, 

 and so on, allowing the plants to run into the three-feet space, 

 and then the next spring taking them out for plants to set or 

 sell, and in so doing leaving a path between each bed, which 

 makes it convenient for picking. 



The runners were trimmed twice at the first of the season and 

 allowed to grow the rest of the season, though in this I think I 

 made a mistake ; this year I allowed the first runners to grow, 

 thus securing stronger plants for next year's bearing, and 

 trimmed the later runners. It is my opinion that we get more 

 and better fruit in this way than in strictly hill culture, as in hill 

 culture I have sometimes had three hundred berries on a single 



nt, almost always two hundred to two hundred and fifty, and 



