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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



says: &quot;We have known some plantations to yield annually $400 per acre and upwards, for 

 several years in succession, while others did not pay more than half that amount. Hav 

 ing kept a record of the yield and sale o.f our blackberries for fourteen years past, we find 

 the average to be about as follows, viz. : Price fourteen cents per quart, and yield 2,200 

 quarts per acre, which gives the following results: 



Commission, at 10 per cent., ......... $20.80 



Picking 2,200 quarts at li cents, . . . . . . . . .33.00 



Use of boxes 10.00 



Pruning, cultivating, etc., . . . . . . . . . .34.20 



Net profit per acre, . . . . . . . . . .200.00 



Gross sales 2,200 quarts per acre, at 14 cents, ...... $308.00 



Sometimes we hear of extravagant reports, calculated from the product of a small lot up 

 to what ten or twenty acres under similar circumstances would yield. A safer rule is to take 

 the acres, and see what they have produced. By reference to the report of the &quot;West Jersey 



Fruit Growers Association, which ap 

 pointed committees to collect the 

 returns from all the fruit growers in 

 the neighborhood, it will be found 

 that 776 acres of land in strawberries, 

 raspberries, and blackberries produced 

 the sum of nearly $200,000, or about 

 $250 per acre.&quot; Another fruit grower 

 of many years .experience expresses the 

 following opinion: &quot;Requiring little 

 manure, and being as easy grown as 

 a field of corn, the blackberry proves 

 one of the most profitable of fruits. 

 The yield per acre is usually from 

 sixty to one hundred bushels, though 

 at times one hundred and fifty bushels 

 have been obtained. The price in 

 some markets averages twenty cents 

 per quart, and in others twelve and 

 fifteen cents. Some plantations yield 

 fruit for from twenty to thirty years, 

 giving an income of from $100 to 

 $400 per acre. At times $500 worth 

 of fruit has been obtained per acre. 

 Berries from the South have some 

 times sold in the Philadelphia and 

 New York markets as high as fifty 

 cents per quart. At the North, forty 

 plants have been known to yield fully 

 eight bushels of fruit. They will give 

 a nice little income to children when 

 planted along fences, even if uncul 

 tivated after the first year. When 

 grown in a green sod they often are 

 very hardy and quite productive.&quot; 

 Currants. The currant (Riles rubrum ) is a native of Britain and the North of Europe, 

 and has been cultivated in the gardens of that region for more than a century. It is one of 



