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and he is one of our most desperate and persistent enemies ; and 

 other worms and hngs tliat breed in the gronnd. 



To assist in bracing up some of the weak and faltering small 

 frnit growers 1 have copied from my I)ooks the following figures. 

 One sixteenth of an acre of Jucundas — in hills — in 1880 yielded 

 five luindrcd quarts of berries, that sold for twenty-six and six 

 tentlis cents a quart, or one hundred and tliirty-three dollars, for 

 the berries on one-sixteenth of an acre of land, or at the rate of 

 eight thousand quarts, or two liundred and fifty-three bushels per 

 acre, or two tliousand one hutidred and twenty-eight dollars per 

 acre, at above rates, and not a verj' good year for strawberries 

 either. 



From one acre of Charles Downing, (;res(tent and Sharpless I 

 sold three thousand two hundred and forty-four quarts, or one 

 hundred and one bushels at seventeen cents a quart and a fraction 

 more, or five hun(h'ed and fifty-six dollars and sixty-one cents 

 from tlie acre ; these were in the matted rows, and grew corn 

 amongst them in 1879, the year tiie plants were set out. 



The corn paid all tlie expense the first season — the varieties 

 grown were Early Minnesota, and Early Worcester sweet 

 corn — and the plants sold and used that came from the paths in 

 the spring of 1880 paid the expenses for that year. 



From one tliirty-second part of an acre in Sharpless, in matted 

 rows, I sold one hundred and four quarts — besides all that were 

 ate on the bed, given away, and used to exhibit — for twenty- 

 tliree cents a quart, and a fraction more, or at the rate of three 

 thousand three hundred and twenty-eight quarts per acre — or one 

 huhdred and four bushels — worth seven hundred and sixty-five 

 dollars and forty-four cents. This was a trial bed, containing 

 two long rows, running over level, moist, loamy land, and dry 

 shaley hill land, and many of the berries were left on the vines 

 too long, and rotted, which damaged otliers on the vines; so I 

 shall expect them to be fairly productive on any reasonable soil. 

 So much for the strawberry beds we kept an account with. Now 

 my doubting friends, the only reason I don't get rich growing 

 strawberries, is, I don't have acres enough under cultivation. 



Next in season is the Raspberry, and first ripe is the Brandy- 

 wine, red, and Davidson's Thornless, black; both good hardy 

 varieties, and fairly productive; and when properly cultivated on 

 good moist — not Wet — soil, well manured with strong manure, 

 and the suckers of the Brandywine treated as weeds, are a 

 desiral)le and profitable market crop ; as the canes are thornless, 

 can be cultivated in the small garden coaifortaldy. Neither of 

 them has proved tender with me, and I never have covered them 

 in the Winter, and have grown them several years. 



