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canned, jammed, and gave away $50 worth, probably more, as some days I know 

 by actual measurement that we ate three pecks ! " 



We might safely say that the total value of the crop at wholesale prices was 

 $287. No attempt was made to get the last dollar out of them, or the receipts 

 might have been pushed up to $300. 



He said, " I have not figured up the exact yield in bushels, but it was over 

 100, or considerable above the rate of 200 bushels per acre. We sold to dealers 

 only, or to families who wanted at least half a bushel." He fixed the price of his 

 best selected berries at $3.20 a bushel, and of the small ones for canning at $2, 

 and held it there without any regard to how low others were selling. 



His largest picking in one day was about thirteen bushels, which sold for 

 $36.55. It took from four to six good pickers to keep right up. Mr. Ferry 

 did the marketing ; he examined all the berries himself and could recommend 

 them. 



The varieties Mr. Ferry grows aie Sterling, Haverland and Bubach"s No. 5. 

 These are pistillate varieties, and to fertilize them he plants, in alternate rows, 

 Jessie, Cumberland, Gandy and Downing. You will see all these varieties are 

 large, beautiful berries, except the Downing, which no doubt he plants for its 

 value as a fertilizer. 



Mr. Ferry has two rows of Haverland, or about one-sixteenth of an acre in the 

 two rows. He usually picks two bushels a day, all first-class berries, at 

 $3.20 per bush. This I know. Mr. Ferry says that the sixteenth of an acre 

 brought him at the rate of $1,000 per acre ! 



He said he took a sample of his large berries to an old dealer in the 

 city, and he said, " You may talk of quality to the people to the end of the 

 world, but every one will buy that which pleases the eye in preference to that 

 which has excellence of quality.'' 



Grantoti, Ont. JOHN LITTLE. 



GRAPES IN MUSKOKA. 



!N answer to T. B., at your request (Question 84), in October Horticul- 

 turist, I beg to say that in 1888, from the i8th of September to the 3rd of 

 October, I gathered from my garden 183 lbs. of ripe grapes, all of which 

 not used by my family were sold at an average of ten cents a pound. On 

 the 5th of October, fearing frost, the balance of the fruit, ripe and unripe, 

 was gathered, weighing, exclusive of the above, 249 lbs., total 432 lbs. This 

 I consider a successful season. 



I enclose a list by which T. B. can see when, in a good season, he might 

 expect to pick ripe grapes in Muskoka ; also another list showing the pro- 

 duct of each of the principal vines at the final gathering, by which T. B 

 can see which sort gives the greatest weight. 



