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berries you grow per hill, but I have seen them go as low as 

 three cents a pint, with very little profit, just about meeting- 

 expenses However, anything over that I believe there is 

 money in ; at four or five cents a pint, I think there is money 

 in raspberries. 



QUESTION: How much did you have to pay for pick- 

 ing that pint? 



MR. CLARKE : About a cent. 



MR. HITTINGER : Land at $200 an acre ? 



MR. CLARKE : The land at that price? 



MR. HITTINGER : Yes. 



MR. CLARKE : No, sir. I want to tell you a little story 

 about a neighbor of mine. Last year he had two acres of a 

 red raspberry of a kind we grow in the Hudson valley, 

 called the Perfection, that is three or four years old and the 

 whole valley was going wild over them. This year he told 

 me that when his expenses were out he netted just $2,000 

 from his two acres. 



THE PRESIDENT: And I will vouch for Mr. Clarke's 

 general reputation for truthfulness. 



MR. S]\IITH : I think Mr. Clarke has brought out some 

 valuable testimony, A good raspberry grower, catering to 

 one of eastern cities or towns seldom has to get down to four 

 or five cents per pint basket. When I heard the prices 

 which growers receive at the canneries in western New 

 York, and think of the prices we are able to get here, I al- 

 ways note the wide difference favorable to us. 



MR. HITTINGER : How long would it take to make a 

 raspberry plantation, before you get good results? 



MR. SMITH: I think that is one of the strong argu- 

 ments favorable to the red raspberry as against the straw- 

 berry. Your strawberry man sets out a plantation at a 

 heavy initial cost, and harvests one profitable crop. Your 

 red raspberry man, on the other hand, if things are favor- 

 able usually gets at least from four to six good crops from his 

 plantation, and the low initial cost is well distributed over a 

 term of years. 



