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Now, with the great number of new early and kite varieties being 

 introduced, how long, I ask, will it be until the Very Earliest and the 

 Very Latest strawberries will come together with their ripening 

 seasons in the middle of the winter ? But, in view of all this, how much 

 earlier do we get berries now than we did ten years ago, or how much 

 later is the 'Jumbo" than the Cumberland Triumph ? 



PROFITS OF SMALL FRUITS AND HOW TO GET THEM. 



J. H. LOGAN, NEVADA, 



Mr. President and Members of our Horticultural Society: 



As I have been placed on the program for a paper on the profits of 

 small fruits and how to get them, I will at first admit of my inability to 

 prepare a pajoer that, I think, would interest the members of our society. 



The profits of the business is what we are all looking after, for I 

 suppose there are only a few at least who are laboring in the orchard or 

 vineyard merely for pleasure, the first question that generally comes up , 

 when speaking of a business, is : Does it pay ? 



Now, the profits in any business generally depends upon the ability 

 of the person engaged in it, and, to obtain good profits from small fruits- 

 requires a great deal of tact. I think there are a great many engaged in 

 fruit cultLU"c that do not get what really belongs to them when it comes 

 to the marketing of their crop. Now, to give any information relative to 

 the profits of the business, it would first be necessary to make an item of 

 the expense of starting in the business. I will simply give a brief esti- 

 mate of putting in a five acre tract in strawberries, raspberries and black- 

 berries, presuming that the individual owns the land and performs his 

 own labor in setting the plants. We will start out with strawberries, 

 two acres, 10,000 plants per acre, at a cost of $2.50 per thousand — $50 

 for plants ; and two acres in raspberries, 2000 plants per acre, at $7.50 

 per 1000 — $30; and one acre in blackberries, 2000 plants — $15. Now 

 we have expended for plants $95 ; the expense of cultivation the 



