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to circulate, the box will not warp to rub the berries together. I 

 never have trouble in selling these berries for eighteen or twenty 

 cents per basket at retail. 



QuESTiox: Have you grown fall bearing berries? 



Mr. H-\llett: I have never tried them myself. I might say 

 that I grow my berries in rows, not in the hih system. I aUow them 

 to mat some, but do not allow them to mat too thickly. 



QuESTiox: How often do you cultivate? 



^1e, Hallett: Every day. or ever}' three or four days, as time 

 will aUow. You can't keep a cultivator going too much with any 

 crop. 



QuESTiox; What variety of strawberry do you grow? 



^Ie. H-illett: The Glen Mary, the Warfield. and Senator 

 Dunlap have done the best with me. The bean is valuable because 

 it takes so httle time to care for it. Strir . ha "e been 



the varieties our market caUs for. Thes^r — - .nan thirty 



cents a peck, and from that to fifty. The shell 1 - :^ :j other crop 

 which seUs well, and when the com c _r^rt man}- 



bushels of these beans in connection c T:_ : irnberry 



bean in our section is all we can raise. Cu: / _ 1 seller, 



if evenly sized and strictly fresh will sell for - : v ri dozen 



at first, and gradually drop to about fifteen Cci: : z^n. The 

 squash should be grown by all market gardeners, lieve it is a 



very profitable crop. Of the summer squash, a im : ; 7 i= 



called for, but the winter squash, if you have the be^: vill 

 seU well. One great trouble with growing squas. v _: w too 

 many plants per acre. If you wiU aU next year cut down : : : r er 

 of your plants per acre to one-hah* what you have been ^r in^. I 

 think you wiU raise double the squash and a great : : : : They 

 wiU mature quickly, and wUl be of better quality. Ti e :est 

 yield of squash I ever raised was when I plan^- 1 half to three- q uariers 

 of an acre and had a good many hills, r^-r : ai l not germinate well 

 and on this piece there were ninety plants. I owed the large yield 

 to the fact that the plants had plenty of feeding space. No records 

 kept, but a very hea^w crop was harvested, 



Qttestiox: TMiat distance would you advocate planting? 



