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raised many raspberries, but probably in the 30 years that 

 we have been in the business, we have raised 3000 bushels, — 

 about 100 crates a year., It is a very modest way that we 

 have been in the business, but we have not usually found it 

 necessary to pick on Sunday. Now, I know it is quite a cus- 

 tom, and I have had my commission men ask me, "Why don't 

 you pick your berries Sunday and get them in here Monday 

 morning?" "Well," I replied, "I don't know why, I think 

 1 am too lazy. If 1 plan to work six days, that is all I want 

 to. I want Sunday for going to church." (Applause.) If 

 1 raise a good raspberry and get it into market in good shape, 

 if they can't buy it Monday morning, they will buy it Tues- 

 day morning. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I think Mr. Whitcomb has had a 

 little over 10 minutes, but we have been glad to hear from 

 him on this subject. 



A IVIEMBER: I would like to inquire if the $150 for 

 an acre, he meant gross receipts or profit? 



MR. WHITCOMB : Net profit. We get about four cents 

 3 pint profit, and at 60 bushels to the acre, that gives us four 

 cents profit on 3600 pints, — that is $144. There was never a 

 chance to make more money in the raspberry business than 

 today. Raspberries sold at 16 or 17 cents a pint last year at 

 wholesale. 



MR. SMITH of Wellesley : I merely wanted to call your 

 attention to referring to the surface of the earth as "dirt." 

 It seems to me those who work as farmers and gardeners 

 and fruit growers might express themselves in the terms that 

 they use. 



A MEMBER: I would like to add one word. I think 

 Mr. Whitcomb has made it very clear. He speaks of his soil, 

 how he made a success of raising raspberries on it. 



At Concord, our land is very different from the land Mr. 

 Whitcomb describes in Littleton. On his soil he can grow a 

 firmer raspberry and market it in better condition, so it really 

 cut us out in raising raspberries in Concord as a market 

 crop, because the raspberries were soft; and they went to 



