A B C OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 179 



It is a big lot of work to set each runner in place by hand, 

 and to pinch off all superfluous runners. But, there is no ex- 

 cellence without great labor. Friend W. had a large crop of 

 strawberries during the past season, and sold them all at extra 

 prices. Three or four cents more per quart for your berries will 

 easily pay for the extra labor ; and when you get right down to 

 it, a good many times it is about as cheap to do any thing fight 

 as to let it go, or to get out the weeds by fits and starts after 

 they have doce a big lot of damage. He placed his berries 

 right in the market, side by side with other berries that were 

 selling at 5 and 6 cents. When the dealers protested about his 

 asking 10 and 12 for his he replied : 



"You need not buy them at all, my friend, unless you have 

 a mind to. Set them right out here on the walk, put a tag on 

 them, stating the price, and I will allow you a commission for 

 selling." 



It the above conversation took place on the sidewalk, where 

 it usually does, about this time somebody going by wanted 

 some of the berries. Then somebody else wanted some more ; 

 and pretty soon the dealer says, " Here, Mr. White, I will take 

 them at your price." Now, this is the same thing Terry de- 

 scribes in his strawberry-book. It can be done every time when 

 you have something away ahead of the general run in the mar- 

 ket. Terry accomplished the matter of getting his plants so as 

 to give each one plenty of room, by cutting out the surplus 

 plants in the fall. Friend White's plan is more work, but I 

 think it is a little ahead, because the surplus plants are out be- 

 fore they get started. And then, what a pleasure to show to 

 your friends I do not mean the berries I mean the plants and 

 the strawberry -garden ! I should judge friend W. has some- 

 thing like a quarter of an acre close by his dwelling, managed 

 on this high-pressure principle. 



The summer after the above was written we received the 

 following from friend White, on a postal card : 



The Gaudies are giving 72 quarts each morning, with prospects of keep- 

 ing it up the week out. DAN WHITE. 

 New Condon, O., June 16 1896. 



