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'American Agriculturist. Mr. Jerolaman has 

 beaten that record more than once ; Prof. W. G. 

 Johnson says that Mr. Jerolaman has produced 

 berries four inches in diameter. Four inches di- 

 ameter would make a big apple. They hold the 

 world's record and are likely to for some time to 

 come. 



Large, sweet, good flavored berries, Mr. Jero- 

 laman says, sell on sight, and never glut the mar- 

 ket. Of the berries raised on his farm, thirteen 

 usually fill a quart box ; he considers 6,000 quarts 

 per acre a good yield. 



Mr. Frederick Wright, of New Jersey, is au- 

 thority for the statement that the Climax Straw- 

 berry has yielded 6300 quarts on less than J acre. 

 Mr. Wright saw the field in bearing in the ground 

 of the originator of the Climax, Mr. H. W. Gra- 

 ham, White Haven, Md. (in 1903, I think). 



Two years ago, Mr. T. C. Kevitt, Athenia, 

 N. J., had an acre of Glen Mary strawberries 

 that yielded 21,780 quarts. Mr. H. W. Colling- 

 wood, Editor of The Rural New Yorker, went 

 over to Mr. Kevitt's, measured the acre, and saw 

 a portion of the berries picked, from a measured 



