DIRECTIONS FOR BLUEBERRY CULTURE. 



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1910 to 1912, when the phmtation was 21 to 23 years old. The data 

 are as follows : 



Yield and receipts from i)lantation of hluehcrries near Elkhart, Ind., 1910 to 



1912. 



The annual expenses for weeding, cultivation, and irrigation were 

 about $20 per acre. The cost of jjicking was 5 cents a quart. The 

 general cost of maintenance of the equipment w^as about $2 per acre 

 per year, the crates and boxes being used repeatedly. The computa- 

 tion includes an estimated annual charge of $12 per acre for interest, 

 $2 for taxes, and $4 for depreciation or sinking fund. 



It must be borne in mind that these figures are based on the yields 

 from w^ild bushes transplanted without selection as to individual 

 productiveness or the size of the berries. With bushes propagated 

 from selected .stocks the yield should be greater and the berries much 

 larger, this greater size probably effecting a reduction in the cost of 

 picking and certainly an increase in the selling price. 



Onl}^ a beginning has been made in the improvement of the blue- 

 berry. In a series of experiments involving the selection of superior 

 Avild strains, the growing of hybrids, and the forcing of choice 

 varieties to quick fruiting by budding them on strong seedling stocks, 

 berries eleven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter have already been 

 produced, and it is expected that from the better Avilcl stocks now 

 available berries of still larger size will be developed. 



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