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proceeds equal to $3,486. We paid for picking $43575- The cost of 

 trimming and cultivating was about $400; cost of boxes, crates and 

 marketing was $1,307.25, leaving a net profit of $1,343." 



A gentleman in Ulster Co., N. Y., stated that 200 bushes of the 

 Cherry currant yielded him in one season 1,000 Ibs. of fruit, which was 

 sold at an average of eight cents per pound. His gross receipts were 

 $80 from one-fourteenth of an acre, and at the same ratio an acre would 

 have yielded $1,120. Is this an average yield? So far from it, there 

 are many acres of currants and gooseberries that do not pay expenses. 

 Thus it can be seen that the scale ranges from marvelous prizes down 

 to blanks and heavy losses ; but the drawing is not a game of chance, 

 but usually the result of skill and industry, or their reverse. 



Tools for a Strawberry Farm. 



I might have given many examples of large, and even enormously 

 large, profits obtained under exceptional circumstances ; but they tend 

 to mislead. I write for those whose hearts prompt them to co-work with 

 nature, and who are most happy when doing her bidding in the breezy 

 fields and gardens, content with fair rewards, instead of being consumed 

 by the gambler's greed for unearned gold. At the same time, I am 

 decidedly in favor of high culture, and the most generous enriching 

 of the soil ; convinced that fruit growers and farmers in general would 

 make far more money if they spent upon one acre what they usually 

 expend on three. In a later chapter will be found an instance of an 

 expenditure of $350 P er acre on strawberry land, and the net profits 

 obtained were proportionately large. 



