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and the pickers had all they wanted to eat 

 while picking and with their dinner. Then 

 there were two families to use all they 

 wanted and we were both great strawberry 

 eaters. About every day from the first 

 day we could get enough for a short-cake 

 until the diy 1 mowed over the vines, we 

 must have a short-cake and strawberries 

 for sauce; so you see that was something 

 of an item. But taking it altogether J am 

 quite well satisfied with my first crop — so 

 well that I have another acre set out this 

 spring which are looking fine, I think; and 

 people going along the road stop to admire 

 them and tell me how fine they think 

 they are looking, and that naturally makes 

 me feel quite proud of them. 



We had no rain here from about the 

 8th of July until about the 1st of Septem- 

 ber, but thorough cultivation kept the 

 plants growing right along, and I don't 

 think there is a weed in the piece large 

 enough to be seen two rods away. But 

 I guess I have given you enough of my 

 experience for this time. Perhaps, if you 

 think it worth while and that it will be of 

 any interest to you or any of the readers 

 of The Strawberry, I will tell you some 

 other time of my way or raising and mar- 

 keting them and how 1 get on with acre 



No. 2. Hum, N. Y. 



VV/li think it hardly necessary to say 

 "^ that all our readers will be glad to 

 he:ir further from the man who received 

 .$888.17 in cash for his first acre of straw- 

 berries, with perhaps $50 more worth of 

 them consumed on the place. We are 

 very sure, indeed, that every reader of 1 he 

 Strawberry will be interested not only to 

 know how it was done, but will be in- 

 spired by the record here given to go for- 

 ward with more confidence than ever be- 

 fore in his work. 1 he figures show that 

 he received 10 '2 cents plus for his berries. 

 Let what Mr. Clute says about the effect 

 of thorough cultivation during a drought 

 sink deeply into your consciousness. That 

 is exactly what we mean when we say 

 that in large part we may make our own 

 conditions. When nature is shy with her 

 favors and holds back the gentle rains of 

 heaven, we can take the cultivator and the 

 hoe and stir the surf.ice of the soil, pre- 

 serving a continuous dust mulch and thus 

 so conserve the moisture in the soil that 



the plants shall suffer not at all from the 

 influence of the prevailing drought. 



By the way, The Strawberry had a visit 

 the other day from John Rucker of Bos- 

 ton, N. Y., a member of The Strawberry 

 family who has contributed in the past 

 some of the finest photographs of his fields 

 for the benefit of fellow-members. Mr. 

 Rucker sold more than 9,000 quarts of 

 strawberries from a single acre this season, 

 and had he received as high a figure for 

 his product as did Mr. Clute, would have 

 netted ,$950 from his acre. However, he 

 sold through commission houses and his 

 net income from that particular acre was 

 about $800. He is confident that next 

 year he will do still better. 



One California reader reports more than 

 $1,U00 an acre up to September 1, with 

 picking still continuing, and an Oregon 

 reader writes that he took more than 

 $1,500 from a single acre of August 

 Luthers. In the case of both the Oregon 

 and California growers, the season ex- 

 tended through many weeks of time. But 

 the $l,000-an-acre man is at hand even in 

 the land where the strawberry may be 

 gathered for a few weeks only in midsum- 

 mer. Let every one of us work for the 

 realization of this ideal. 



COLORADO pear growers received 

 as high as $1,300 a car for their fruit 

 this season. They naturally view the poor- 

 crop situation with a degree of equanimity 

 not possible in the case of Eastern pear 

 growers. 



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