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THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 



Keep the Boy on the Farm 



We believe every farmer, or fruit-grower, would like to keep his boy on the farm, would like for him 

 to go ahead and make an even greater success than his father. The first step in this direction is to get him 

 interested, make the work as agreeable to him as possible'and make it show a good return to him. You 

 can't do better than to let him have ground for a berry patch all his own. He will be interested right off, 

 he will like the work and take a pride in it; and he will be especially happy in marketing the fruit. Working 

 in beautiful fruit is always a pleasure, and it will be more so to your boy when he begins to realize a big 

 profit on his berries, either on a local market, or from shipments to the city. Let him start a patch. Our 

 collection D (page 6) is just what he needs to make a successful start. Help him get started and he won't 

 want to leave the farm. 



There is Money in Growing Strawberries 



QUICK RETURNS. One of the things that makes 

 Strawberry-growing so attractive is the quick 

 returns that are realized. In growing any other 

 kind of fruit — blackberries, raspberries, peaches, 

 apples, etc. — two, three, four, or even six years are 

 required before fruit is produced and even then not 

 a full crop. Strawberries are different. The plants 

 are set in spring; they grow just one year and then 

 produce a full crop of fancy fruit. 



TWO CROPS. More than that, the beds can be 

 renewed just after the crop is off (see page n) and 

 another crop can be produced the next year — j'ust 

 as good as the first and with very little expense. 



Profits 



How much we can expect depends on the land and 

 the market. Given good care on good land, berries 

 will produce from 3,000 to 15,000 quarts per acre, 

 and with even a fair market, this will pay the grower 

 handsomely. Here are a few reports from some of 

 our customers. 



$2,000 AN ACRE 



February II, iyi6, Clay County, Ind. 

 Dear Sirs: I received your 1916 Book of Berries this spring, 

 as usual; having received it regularly for the past is or 16 years, 

 so long that I would be greatly disappointed not to find it 

 among my mail at the appointed time. I have raised berries 

 from plants received from you of the Senator Dunlap variety 

 that made me nearly $2,000 per acre. I know that this sounds 

 like a fairy tale, but it is true. The ground was accurately 

 measured and an accurate account kept. Of course, this was 

 an exception, but they have always paid. Cordially yours. 



J as. L. Tucker. 



15,000 QUARTS PER ACRE 



February 8, 1916, Sullivan County, Ind. 

 Dear Sirs: Find under separate cover a picture of one of 

 my Strawberry fields [see page 1] which yielded 15,000 quarts to 

 the acre. They were Fendall. pollenized by Aroma, bought 

 from you. Mr. Allen, I am going to order from you again this 

 spring. I have bought Strawberry plants of you for ten years, 

 from 2,000 to 6,000 every year. Can say without fear or favor, 

 the plants always come on time, in good shape, good count, and 

 best of all. true to name. Yours truly, John R. Snyder. 



A GOOD CROP 



February 29, 1916, Page County, Va. 

 Dear Sirs: The plants ordered from you were the finest I 

 ever saw. Set the 1,200 in 1914. March 20, and gathered 1,280 

 quarts the following spring. There are no better plants than 

 Allen's. Sincerely. W. O. May. 



FANCY PRICES FOR PROGRESSIVE BERRIES 



January- 15, 1916, Montgomery County. Ohio. 

 Kind Sirs: I received your catalog; it is grand. From the 

 Progressives shipped me last year, I furnished berries to the 

 Algonquin Hotel, Hollencamp's Brewery, and many private 

 customers. The Dayton Herald and Journal gave me some 

 free advertisements in their papers. It is useless to add that 

 I got fancy prices for those Progressives. I was in the berry 

 business 18 years ago, when you couldn't give berries away in 

 Montgomery County. We shipped everything to Toledo and 

 Detroit; but times have changed. Dayton can't get all the 

 home-grown berries she needs. You can look for a nice order 

 from me again this year. I surely will include Hustler. Yours 

 for fine plants, Jesse A. Prugh. 



BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HIS HOME WITH BERRIES 

 FROM OUR PLANTS 



January 25. 1916, Grant County. Ind. 

 Dear Sirs: To you, Mr. Allen, we give credit for our success 

 in Strawberry-growing. Our new home, that we erected about 

 ten years ago, is noted as the "Strawberry Home" and every- 

 body knows where we got our plants. The proceeds from the 

 plants we received from you paid for it. Yours very truly, 



A. L. Fieghner. 



One of our western customers who is pleased with his bumper crop of berries grown from our plants 



