354 BDSH-FBUITS 



As instances of exceptional yields, five and one -half 

 tons from one and one -fourth acres, or 220 bushels 

 per acre, is reported* as the best yield on the Hud- 

 son previous to 1871. W. W. Farnsworth reported a 

 crop in 1889 1 which averaged six quarts per bush, or 

 320 bushels per acre. Sixteen tons from three acres 

 was reported by J. S. Stickney, of Wisconsin, the 

 same yearj. Let no one mistake these for probable 

 yields, however, in forming- estimates of the results 

 which are likely to follow prospective planting. 



PROFITS 



Profits vary greatly, not only with methods of cul- 

 ture, but also with conditions of the market. There 

 have been periods at which they have proved unprofit- 

 able, and again they have yielded large returns, but 

 this fluctuation is no greater than with other fruit. 

 The larger markets are frequently filled and the price 

 low, but Doctor Hoskins is authority for the state- 

 ments that the New England market is never over- 

 stocked, and that they are more profitable than straw- 

 berries or raspberries. To the skillful grower who is 

 near a market or has exceptionally good facilities for 

 shipping, the currant will prove profitable, while to 

 the ordinary farmer, unaccustomed to their care, and 

 remote from market, they will prove unprofitable. 



♦Horticulturist, 1871:368. 

 tPopular Gardening, 4:111. 

 Illliuois Hort. Soc. Rept., 1886:21. 

 gRural New-Yorker, 1896:234. 



