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Mature Nut Plantation. 

 (Cost per Acre of Cultivation). 







(November or December) i ton shoddy with labour 



3, alternate years, half cost i 



Digging with fork o 



(December or January) grubbing out spawn at root . 



(February) pruning at los. per 100 trees i 



(March) Canterbury hoeing ' . 



(April to September) 3 or 4 hoeings o 



(September) picking (in 3 pickings) 850 Ib. at 2s. 



per 100 Ib o 



Carriage, say o 



Commission, 7 x / a per cent on 14 35. 4^. . . . 

 Rent, tithe, rates, taxes 



Cost . . 



Receipt, say, 85olb. at 33^. ^d. per loolb . . . 

 Balance Profit . 



d. 



The foregoing deals with most of the small fruits grown in 

 Kent. The Loganberry, which is now being extensively cultivated, 

 is a recent introduction." 



J. C. NEWSHAM. Strawberry growing in Hampshire. The 



Journalof the Board of Agriculture. London June 1909, vol. XVI, 

 N 3, p. 286. 



" The development of the strawberry growing industry in this 

 country is becoming more and more extensive, and it is computed 

 that nearly 30 ooo acres are at present devoted to this particular 

 form of culture, which in such counties as Kent and Hampshire 

 has. become a well-established and important industry, affording 

 employment to many thousands of men, women, and, in the harwest 

 time, as many children. 



In the county of Hampshire, the area devoted to this industry- 

 extends from the sea northwards as far as Fareham, Wickham, and 

 Bishop's Waltham. The industry is centred in the district of Botley, 

 Salisbury, Swanwick, and Southampton, and found its origin in this 



