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enough of my own to set and kept on setting each year until 

 the piece was all set using 200 lbs of Stockbridge every year 

 and no other manure. 



I set my rows 10 feet apart with bushes 3 feet apart. 

 It takes six plants per rod. Ploughed between the rows every 

 year, sowing on the Stockbridge, then cultivating in it, then I 

 run a furrow through the middle of the rows and planted 

 beans and potatoes. I did not keep any account of my 

 berries until 1887. I take out all the sprouts between 

 the rows every year, and sell them at $2.00 a hundred, 

 selling 800 to 1,000 every 3'ear ; the plants sold paying nearly 

 the whole expense of the whole season's crop. I use the plough 

 cultivation and hoe all the same. No barnyard manure is used 

 at all, only Stockbridge. Picking begins about the 20th of July 

 and continues until the last of September. I sell my berries at 

 the door, and the average price is 10 cents per quart box. 



crop of 1887. 



Dr. 



For Ploughing and cultivating, $2.00 



200 lbs. Stockbridge fertilizer, 4.00 



Pruning and staking. 1.50 



Picking 767 boxes berries, 11.47 



Total cost $18.97 



Or. 



By 767 boxes Wauclmsett thornless strawberries, 



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sold, average 10 cents per box, $76.70 



Profit of crop of 1887, $57.73 



