138 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
It must be remembered that these figures 
are for good berries and do not include soft, 
poor, or mushy berries, which often bring 
but 50 cents a crate; nor does this price 
include the fancy fruit which sells for a 
premium of 5 cents to Io cents per box. 
At these figures the returns will be: 
8,000 qts. (250 crates) at $2 . . . . $500.00 £500.00 
Minus costs total . . . . . . . 443.85 362.85 
Net profit . . . . . . © « $ 56.55 $137.15 
If the berries were sold at retail the 
returns would be: 
8,000 qts. at 2c. . . . . . . . O$960.00 £960.00 
Minus total cost . . . - + 443.85 362.85 
Net profit . . . . 2... | $516.15 $597.15 
Some readers will think these figures are 
excessively high and others will consider 
them quite low, but the author’s experience 
has shown that there are more in the medium 
class than in either of the above classes, so 
it is important that the figures should not 
be of excessively low returns nor of too high 
rank. 
An average of the estimates show the cost 
of producing a crate of berries ready for 
