STRAWBERRIES FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



BY II. F. HALL. 



Introduction. 



In preparing- this bulletin, the author has two objects in mind. 

 First, to interest the general farmer and amateur gardener to 

 the end that all such may produce a liberal supply of this de- 

 licious and healthful fruit for home use, believing that more real 

 pleasure and benefit can be obtained from a small plot of land 

 when devoted to this crop than in almost any other way re- 

 quiring an equal amount of labor. Even where the native or 

 wild berries are plentiful and may be had for the picking, it is 

 cheaper to grow the cultivated ones in the garden when the cost 

 of picking and hulling is taken into consideration, to say noth- 

 ing of the loss caused by tramping down the grass when gath- 

 ering the former. 



Second, to assist those who are now growing this crop in a 

 commercial way for nearby or distant markets, as well as others 

 who might profitably do so. While the price is not equal to that 

 obtained twenty years ago, with the improved varieties of to- 

 day together with the better knowledge of growing and hand- 

 ling the crop, as large net profits per acre are now being obtained 

 as at any time in the past. The demand for strawberries when 

 well grown and marketed in an attractive manner is increas- 

 ing thruout the state and in fact the country as a whole. The 

 old cry that the business is being overdone was uttered only by 

 the short-sighted person who was unfamiliar with the workings 

 of the law of supply and demand, which teaches that a crop well 

 grown, honestly packed and properly sold stimulates trade, 

 thereby increasing the demand. 



