GREETINGS for 1921 



IAS i season the strawberry "was again one or tke most 

 J proritaole crops for the American farmer. While 

 most of us lost money on grains, potatoes, tomatoes 

 ana nearly all the other crops ^ve gre^v stra^^^berrles paid 

 equally as large profits per acre as they did the season of 

 1919, w^hich -was the best season for the grower m twenty 

 years. I can see no reason why the stra^^^oerry grower 

 may not continue to make good money. The many -vv^ays 

 m which straAivherries are no-w hemg used has created an 

 outlet for many times the supply used only a few years 

 ago. In nearly all the large straw^herry gro-wmg sections 

 will he found a preserving factory putting up many hun- 

 dreds of barrels of strawberries for flavoring used m soda 

 fountains and in making ice creams. There is an enormous 

 demand from these places for fruit juices of all kinds and 

 tbe stra-wberry and raspberry flavors are the most popular. 

 Not only nas the demand for juices, preserves, jams, etc. 

 increased, but the consumption of fresh berries for the table 

 bas also increased enormously. Brokers pay from $5 to $ 12 

 net per 32-quart crate for the berries at the shipping sta- 

 tion for sbipment to tbe large cities. My o-wn berries tbe 

 last t-wo seasons averaged me nearly $9 per 32-quarc crate 

 at our sbippmg station. I do not know of any other crop 

 tbat -vv^itb an equal amount of labor and investment will 

 anywbere equal strawberries. 



Not only bas tbe demand for berries increased but we 

 now have varieties that ^viU produce more than twice as 

 mucb fruit and of mucb better quality than some of tbe 

 old standard varieties. Such varieties are Premier, Big Joe, 

 Lupton, Big Late, Campbells Early, Chesapeake, etc. You 

 will not go w^rong m selecting these varieties, 



^A/^hetber you have been growing stra-wberries or not, 

 you bave been missing a good deal if you are not grooving 

 tbe Fall-bearers. You can just as easily have fresh stra-w- 

 berries from May till December if you plant tbe Ever- 

 bearers as for only about four weeks m early summer 

 wben you plant only the regular season varieties. I picked 

 some nice, ripe berries today, Dec. 13th, fresh from the 

 vines, and \ve have bad them fresh every day since about 

 tbe middle of May. They are wonderful — berries all the 

 time — just as soon as they finish one crop another crop is 

 coming on. ^^bat other investment can you make that w^ill 

 give you and your family more satisfaction and enjoyment 

 tban a patcb of tbese berries? 



'^he following was taken from our county papzr dated Dec. 1 6th: 



The big returns made from strawberries last season has caused 

 more farmers to be interested in the production of this fruit and a 

 larger acreage is being prepared. Last season farmers received from 

 $500 to $700 per acre from their berries. 



Dr. J. C. Whitten, dean of Horticulture, Missouri College of Agri- 

 culture for over 25 y^ears has this to say about orchard profits: 



There never was a time -when orchardists could put out an orchard 

 •with as fine an ontlook for profits as no\v. The man who plants good 

 trees of the right varieties and gives them good care -will make splen- 

 did profits. 



