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Be sure in picking, to have three baskets on a 
board, and have the picker assort the berries 
as picked. Usually, this will about double the 
price that you can get. A good yield is 6000 
quarts per acre, but they have been known to 
yield all the way from 21,000 to 35,000 quarts 
per acre. (See “A Little Land and a Living,” 
pp. 141-148.) 
The good price is for the garden product 
that is better than its kind, and specializing on 
one thing helps to make you grow the best of 
that thing. You naturally try to find out all 
you can about it, and if there is an improved 
method, or somebody has grown a larger crop 
than you, you are going to know how he did it. 
Grow your family vegetables on a portion of your 
plot, but if there is room at all, save the rest for 
some specialty. 
If you cannot grow crops at all, perhaps you 
can specialize on raising animals. You have a 
considerable variety to choose from, because, 
as I have shown in “A Little Land and a Liv- 
ing,” and also in “Three Acres and Liberty,” 
there is a market for everything, from bees and 
poultry to fish and silver foxes. (The foxes were 
sneered at, first off, but the Department of Ag- 
riculture has just published a bulletin on breed- 
ing foxes.) 
