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PRODUCTION. 



boats during one day last season 200,000 baskets; and 

 several years ago the superintendent of ttie Erie E. E. 

 certified to the secretary, Mr. Marsh, that the evening 

 train of that day brought in 893 bushels strawberries. 



From, all sources during the season we could have 

 received scarcely less than 8,000,000 baskets, which at 

 an average wholesale price of 2|- cents per basket, (five 

 baskets to the quart) would make an aggregate of 

 $200,000. It should be remembered that much of the 

 supply of Brooklyn comes through the New York 

 market. 



Some single farmers around New York are cultivat- 

 ing thirty or more acres. Cincinnati reported 9,000 

 bushels strawberries in their market in 1851 or '52. ~ 



We cannot learn that the common crop of the straw- 

 berry either around New York, Philadelphia, Boston or 

 Cincinnati actually exceeds twenty -five to fifty bushels 

 per acre, although we have instances reported around 

 all the cities of 100 bushels, and even 130 to 140 

 bushels having been produced on an acre, or in that 

 proportion ; so that the returns given in to us of the 

 avails varies from $100 to $800 per acre, and the 

 prices obtained ranges from 12^ cents up to $1 50 per 

 quart. The latter price for the very earliest taken into 

 Washington City from the vicinity. The ordinary re- 

 turn for an ?cre, in order to be satisfactory to the 

 growers, we are told is $200 ; and the expense of cuJ- 



