at room temperature or under refrig- 

 eration. Howard 17 proved to be a 

 poor keeper while Robinson, al- 

 though rated as a soft berry, kept 

 very well. 



The Great Bay variety peak yield 

 averaged seven days later than How- 

 ard 17 for three years. In 1951 a 

 Colebrook grower marketed one- 

 third acre of Great Bay berries from 

 July 7 to August 2 at a price of 47 

 cents per quart. In spite of a poor 

 stand the gross return per acre ex- 

 ceeded S2i00. 



The price offered for commerical 

 processing of strawberries is not high 

 enough in New Hampshire to war- 

 rant sale for this purpose. 



Several growers who have permit- 

 ted the buyers to pick the berries have 

 found that they can offer up to a 

 fifty per cent discount over the retail 

 price and still net about as much as 

 they could by jobbing to stores in 

 nearby towns. 



L. A. Dougherty 



Agricultural Engineering 



Convenient Transportation 

 Means Longer Harrow Life 



Wise farmers do not haul disk 

 harrows over gravel, rock, or hard 

 surfaced roads, ^ut load them on 

 some type of transport. Many differ- 

 ent types are employed depending on 

 the frequency of moving from field 

 to field and the farm management 

 practices employed by the particular 

 farmer. The effectiveness for preserv- 



ing the cutting qualities of such a 

 harrow is directly dependent on the 

 ease with which loading and trans- 

 porting can be done, particularly on 

 farms where such work is not done 

 by the owner. 



The accompanying picture shows 

 a harrow carrier of the overhead sus- 

 pension type built by University of 

 New Hampshire Agricultural Engi- 

 neers early in 1951. We believe this 



Figure 1. The overhead suspension type harrow carrier which was built by agricultural 



engineers at the University. 



