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the bed over for one and possibly two or three years. As I 

 have stated to some of you before, I am in the market garden- 

 ing" business, and for that reason we hold our beds probably 

 longer than others, because after we have taken the crop ofif, 

 we are going to plow them in and have time to plant a later 

 crop of vegetables on the same ground. The varieties that a 

 person is to grow should be worked out by himself — in other 

 words, the variety that does well on your soil may not on mine, 

 and that which does well on some of my soil- won't do well on 

 some other parts of it, so that I raise quite a number of varie- 

 ties, and I find we get good results. You may take the Gandy 

 berry, and there are a good many soils that will not produce a 

 good crop. We hear of the Parker-Earle that produces such 

 enormous crops, and on a great deal of our land we can't get any 

 such crops as the men in New Jersey give it credit for pro- 

 ducing, and I know there is a friend here in the audience who 

 has had remarkable success year after year with the Sharp- 

 less, which is one of the best berries, where it does grow to 

 perfection. The thing for a person to take into consideration 

 is the market that he is growing for. If he is going to grow for 

 a distant market, he must select a berry that is firm and will 

 stand transportation, and if he is going to cater to a fancy mar- 

 ket, he must select a berry that will make a fancy berry, that 

 is, one that will grow and make large, handsome berries. If 

 you are going to raise berries for the general market, pos- 

 sibly something that grows a uniform size might be the most 

 profitable, and give the largest number of quarts, and would 

 succeed possibly with less care than some of the larger sorts. 

 The prices, taking all things into consideration, diflfer but lit- 

 tle, as to whether you are producing for the home market or for 

 the shipping market, or for the fancy, in proportion to the 

 cost of producing and the cost of selling. I think the person 

 that has chances to furnish some of the best stores in some of 

 the smaller towns, possibly where there is less competition, 

 gets the best results from his berry crop. Mr. Hoyt had quite 

 a little to say in regard to the pedigree of the apple. \\t have 

 all of us been receiving the last year or two different pam- 

 phlets or catalogues, holding up the "pedigree" of the strawber- 

 ry, but I look at the pedigree of the strawberry in much the 

 same wav Mr. Hoyt does the pedigree of the apple. After you 



