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cultivation of small fruit. It offers as wide and 

 safe a field as any other branch of business except 

 natural monopolies. In many instances with an 

 annual expenditure of twenty-five dollars per 

 acre, a return of only one hundred dollars is ob- 

 tainable, while upon the same soil and with the 

 same variety, if fifty dollars had been expended, 

 the return would have been three or four hun- 

 dred dollars. All experiments show that extra 

 culture is far more profitable than what is 

 generally termed good culture. Many fruit 

 growers, for the purpose of extending their busi- 

 ness, increase the number of acres, when, if they 

 would double the depth of those which they 

 already possess, they would obtain the same in- 

 crease in product without the expense of more 

 land, and the extra travel and travail of cultivat- 

 ing two acres, when one acre might produce the 

 same results. 



About four out of five growers in northern 

 New Jersey prefer a sandy soil for strawberries, 

 and in the southern section, where the greatest 

 number of growers are located, fully two-thirds 

 preferred sand loam. Yet from statistics gath- 



