4 ALLEN’S BOOK OF BERRIES—1922 
Kliondyke, A Great Shipping Berry. 
It Pays to Grow Strawberries 
They have paid well every year for several years without a 
single exception and they are the only crop we know of that has 
done this. Even last year (1921) the year of depression, straw- 
berries paid well. There is every indication that they will con- 
tinue to pay well for several more years. We will cite below 
some of the reasons why we think this will be so and also why 
we think the Home Strawberry Garden will pay big dividends in 
health as well as in money. 
No Crop More Sure to Yield 
A Profit 
1. Earliest Fruit. Strawberries are the first fruit of the year. 
They would be in the demand for this reason even if they were 
not the most delicious of fruits. For both local market men and 
shippers there is an opportunity to cash in on this desire for 
some of the first fresh fruits. 
2. Usual Markets. The regular strawberry demand (hotels, 
restaurants, grocery trade, home canning, preserving, etc.) will 
be great this year. This demand is always strong, but will be 
augmented by the shortage in the peach and apple crop last year 
(1921). Fruit has been considered a luxury, but is being more 
widely recognized all the time as a necessity—a promoter of health. 
Get started with some good plants of good varieties and help 
supply this demand. 
3. CHEAPER SUGAR. We predicted last year that. cheaper 
sugar and somewhat lower priced fruit would increase the demand 
of the “‘juice men’’ and others who can or preserve strawberries 
commercially. We were wrong in this because these men had 
stocked up in spring of 1920 with sugar at 20c per lb. and over, 
berries 25c per qt. and up, and extra high labor costs. Now the 
public would not take all these berries at the prices that were 
charged for the finished product. So they had a lot of ‘carry 
over’ stock and did very little buying in 1921. Many of these pro- 
ducts will not carry over more than two years, so the manufac- 
turers mostly, like the farmers, are taking their losses, lowering 
Received Alright 
Wyandotte Co., Kansas, April 23, 1921 
I received the strawberry plants all right this time. They came 
through in fine shape. Many thanks. 
Mrs. C. R. Webster 
