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7580 lb,; strawberries as much as 5000 lb., 

 although the weights varied remarkably in 

 accordance with the variety of strawberry 

 grown. We have had the advantage of 

 inspecting many plots of land on Small 

 Holdings upon which strawberries have 

 been successfully grown, Worcestershire 

 holders of five acres having in the 

 season during which we visited the farms 

 realised as much as £80 for onc- 

 and-a-quarter acres gathered without the 

 expenditure of a shilling for hired labour, 

 and sold wholesale in the Birmingham market. 

 This Kentish farm, which has produced 

 vegetables and fruits in great variety, the 

 latter including apples, cobnuts, damsons, 

 raspberries, and currants, is an existing 

 testimony to what is possible in the produc- 

 tion of crops upon poor heavy land occupied 

 by men who are at once able to till it and 

 provide it with the requisite manure. 



