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things of tills life, as they go along, and add another home 

 attraction for your children to remember when they grow up. 

 It is not difficult or mysterious; there is some skill required to 

 grow the big fruit we read about, but fruit in abundance, and 

 better, for eating, can be grown with very little trouble, and it 

 would be a surprise to those who have depended on the mar- 

 kets, supplied only with those varieties which yield the most 

 and carry the best, and these seldom in their best condition. 



E. P. Richardson, Chairman. 



STATEMENT OF T. J. KING. 



Statement concerning a crop of Strawberries, raised by T- 

 J. King, in Newburyport, 1880. The crop in 1878 was corn ; 

 no manure. Land is a dark loam. 



Land was ploughed the last of May, 1879, about 9 inches 

 deep ; harrowed with common tooth harrow. Plants were set 

 twenty inches apart in rows 3 feet nine inches apart. Variety, 

 Wilson's Albany. They were hoed four times and weeded three 

 times. 



When the runners were well started, they were placed in 

 position around the plant, so as to have the young plants as 

 near as possible, about five inches apart each way ; a little 

 earth was then placed on them with the trowel to keep them in 

 position till well rooted. 



In December they were covered with fine salt hay, at the 

 rate of about four tons per acre. In April, 1880, the covering 

 was removed and the land marked off into beds, 27 inches wide, 

 with paths 18 inches wide. The plants were then dug out of 

 the paths and a dressing of leached wood ashes applied at tlie 

 rate of 160 bushels to the acre, sown broadcast. The paths 

 were then mulched three inches deep, and mulch also worked 

 in well around the plants. 



The yield was 1224 quarts of berries, and -1000 plants 

 removed from the paths and valued at $3 per 1000. The 

 expense of raising crop was, 



For rent of land, $3.00 



Ploughing and harrowing, .75 



