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since there are never very many berries ripe at one time. 

 The grower must, therefore, receive a considerably higher 

 price per quart than for black-caps, or blackberries, if 

 they are to prove equally profitable. As with all crops 

 the yields are largely dependent upon the care and at- 

 tention received. 



NORMAL PROFITS 



Forecasting profits in any undertaking is uncertain. 

 So many factors enter into the problem that one can 

 never safely predict the outcome. Red raspberries are 

 nearly always in good demand. The grower who has a 

 home market at hand is reasonably safe in expecting a 

 price which will yield a fair profit on a well-grown crop. 

 Large markets are much less likely to be glutted with 

 reds than with blacks, but their smaller yields and poorer 

 shipping qualities make them less desirable for distant 

 markets. The cost of production, including rent of land, 

 fertilizer, tillage, and the like should not exceed fifty 

 dollars an acre. The cost of picking and packages will 

 range from two to four cents a quart. At a selling price 

 of ten cents a quart to the grower, there should be a fair 

 margin of profit in the undertaking. Wilson found in his 

 investigations, cited above, that the average gross returns 

 to the acre were $162.91 in 1909 and $139.75 in 1910. 



NOTE ON THE HYBRID REDS 



Two classes of plants are really embraced in this hybrid 

 group. One of these propagates naturally almost wholly 



