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small ones for canning at $2, and held it there without any re- 

 gard to how low others were selling. I believed our town peo- 

 ple would appreciate a good thing, and be willing to pay for it, 

 and they were ; and after the first day they took all we had, so 

 that we did not have a single quart of berries spoil after they 

 were picked ; and the demand was so great that we could not 

 get a chance to can any for ourselves until the very last, when 

 we shut down and positively refused to sell any more. Noth- 

 ing in the world but extra quality gave us this good market in 

 this season when berries were so plentiful. The markets were 

 all glutted with common berries ; but such as ours were not 

 crowded in the least, and never will be. I went through the 

 market in Cleveland during the best of the season, and through 

 the most fancy groceries on Euclid Avenue ; and in all that 

 great city there was not half a bushel of berries that would 

 match what I was furnishing to our grocers. Now, talk is 

 cheap ; but photographs tell the truth. It occurred to me, when 

 I was going to town one day, that a picture of the berries in 

 the drawers, just as sold to customers, would be more convinc- 

 ing as to the soundness of my method of culture than pages of 

 mere writing, and so I drove to the gallery and had some pic- 

 tures taken. The berries are exactly the same size all through 

 the drawers (not " topped " at all), and these drawers were no 

 better than many others which our dealers had. One picture 

 shows the Sterling and Haverland. When the Gandies first 

 came, some eight days after the others, they were so magnifi- 

 cently large and fine that I got a picture of two drawers of them 

 also. They sold readily at $4 a bushel. These two drawers 

 that you see a picture of brought me $4, and retailed just as 

 fast as they could be handed out, almost, at 15 cents a quart, 

 when, I was told, people were peddling berries at 8 or 10 cents, 

 and when you could buy common berries in Cleveland for $2 

 a stand of two bushels. By the way, I give you a picture of a 

 drawer of these common berries, so you can better judge the 

 size of the others. My wife says these are better than the aver- 



