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[Sta. Bull. 321 



The counties can be grouped roughly into three price classes as 

 follows : 



Average price per quart 



Northern 



Coos 



Central and Southwestern 



Grafton Merrimack 



Cheshire 

 Sullivan 



Carroll 

 Belknap 



Southern and Southeastern 



Hillsboro Strafford 



Rockingham 



State average 



14.5 cts. 

 15.1-16.6 cts. 



12.6-14.1 cts. 

 15.3 cts. 



City jobbing prices 



Weekly jobbing quotations for native strawberries have been re- 

 ported for a number of years in the X. H. Weekly Market Bulletin 

 for Manchester. Concord. Portsmouth, and Keene. For the past ten 

 years, Concord cjuotations have been the highest or second highest 

 in every year. Simple averages of weekly quotations in cents per 

 quart for the 10-year period. 1930 to 1939, are as follows: Con- 

 cord-l<S. Manchester-16.7. Keene- 16.5. Portsmouth- 16.4. 



Returns for early and late strawberry sales 



New Hampshire's late strawberry market is attractive, for prices 

 are unusually well maintained in that period as competition from 

 sources farther south lias dropped out. 



In comparing prices early and late in the season, one should bear 

 in mind that the berries at the end of the season are likely to be 

 smaller and less attractive. 



Records of a western New Hampshire grower give us some inter- 

 esting comparisons of returns from early and late season sales. In 

 recent years growers from states to the south have given him keen 

 comjietition early in the season due to rapid transj)ortati()n and im- 

 proved methods of refrigeration. This particular grower also re- 



15 (to 1915) 

 15 (after 1915) 



30 seasons 



cents 

 16.46 

 23.22 

 19.84 



cents 

 14.93 

 24.64 



19.78 



cents 



— 1.53 

 -(-1.41 



- .06 



•Data from records of Mrs. G. E. Gay, Charlestown, N. H. 



