104 



50 bush, ashes, $10.00 



11 days work setting phmts, weeding, etc., 16.50 



Team, 1.50 



Picking and packing, 42.75 



Marketing, 10.00 



Plants, 10.00 



Interest and taxes on hind, (),00 



Total expense, $0G.75 



Balance in favor of crop, $278.97 



Note. — The above crop, viz., 1425 boxes on thirty-two 

 rods, equals 7120 boxes per acre, which at the price received 

 would amount to a product of |1 787.36 per acre. 



The variety was the AAilson's Albany, which I have culti- 

 vated for ten years. I have also raised many other fancy sorts, 

 as the Triumphe Degand, Russells, Jucunda, Agriculturist, 

 etc., and have discarded all for the Wilson's, as that strawberry 

 brings as much in our market, as a better one does, and bears 

 more than double any other Aariety that I ever tried. The 

 plants were set in the spring, al)out the first of ]May, in two 

 rows, two feet apart each Avay, then leaving a space of three 

 feet, then two rows more, and so on, alloAving the plants to 

 run into the three feet space, and then the next spring taking 

 them out for plants to set or sell, and in so doing leaving 

 a path between each bed, which makes it convenient for pick- 

 ing. 



The runners were trimmed twice at the first of the season and 

 allowed to grow the rest of the season, though in this I think 

 I made a mistake ; this year I allowed t\\c first runners to grow, 

 thus securing stronger i)lants for next year's bearing, and trim- 

 med the later runnei's. It is my opinion that we get more and 

 l)etter fruit in this way than in strictly hill culture, as in hill 

 culture I have sometimes had three hundred berries on a single 

 [)lant, almost always two hundred to two hundred and fifty, and 



