STRAWBERRIES PAY! 



For many years. Strawberries have been a good 

 money crop! Of all the farm, fruit or vegetable crops 

 of which we have any knowledge. Strawberries have 

 been the best money crop! In good times and bad, 

 peace times or war, boom or depression, the record 

 has been the same, Strawberries Pay. 



We could name for you growers in every section 

 of the country who have grown strawberries profitably. 

 You've done it yourself or know others who have. 

 They're in the garden areas near all large cities. 

 They're in the large producing and shiping areas of 

 many States. And, they're "in clover" if they've been 

 growing lots of good berries lately. 



STRAWBERRIES PAY— ONE REASON AND 

 THREE SUGGESTIONS 



The possible profit margin is large. With good 

 plants, good soil, good varieties and a fair break in 

 weather conditions, yields of 5,000 to 10,000 qaurts per 

 acre are not unusual. Retail prices of 40-50 cents or 

 more per quart or .wholesale prices of 25-35 cents or 

 more have been the rule. Use any of these figures 

 and you have a gross return per acre which leaves 

 room for present high costs and a profit too. The 

 amount, of course, depends on how large your yields 

 and prices as well as how low your costs. ^ 



Strawberries do not Pay in every single year for 

 every grower. It's the average we're talking about. 

 To help avoid loss any year, to aid in making some 

 profit every year and large profits some years, we 

 make the following suggestions: 



(1) Don't try to grow too many. The man with 50 

 acres or more is something of a gambler. The get- 

 rich-quick type of grower might just as easily get- 

 poor-quick. A commercial planting of Vz or even Va 

 of an acre up to 3 or 4 acres is the solid type of invest- 

 ment. For a part-time grower (full time in picking 

 season) or for the man who uses strawberries as a 

 main money crop along with poultry, vegetables, or 

 other farm or fruit crops, this size planting will mean 

 real money — with a minimum of risk. 



(2) Have some berries every year. Don't try to out- 

 guess nature, economic conditions, the plans of thou- 

 sands of other growers by trying to hit the good years. 

 It just doesn't happen that way. Have some good 

 berries every year. Good beds can be carried over 

 one year rather successfully if prospects are bright. 

 Don't skip setting some plants every year. Remember 

 what "Pop" (Mr. W. F. Allen) tells us, "no matter how 

 high prices are, you can't make any money unless you 

 have some berries to sell." 



(3) Grow good berries. Get good plants, select the 

 best varieties, use your best land, and take care of 

 them. On other pages of this Berry Book we have 

 told you the honest truth about varieties as we know 

 them, and have made growing suggestions based on 

 long experience in our pages on "Common Sense 

 Methods." But, from whatever source you get your 

 ideas, grow good berries. Any berries sold profitably 

 in the war years, but quality is beginning to tell again 

 as total berry production increases. According to pub- 

 lished market reports, the highest and lowest whole- 

 sale sales on the New York City produce market at 

 random dates during the 1947 season were the fol- 

 lowing: 



GOOD BERRIES WILL PAY-ON ANY MARKET DAY 



Date 

 May 7 

 May 14 

 May 29 

 June 5 

 Tune 19 

 June 30 



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,uly u Oswego Co.-Hudson Valley, N. Y„ and N. J. 



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 good demand for fancy stock." 



States Shipping 

 North Carolina 

 Ark.. N.C., Va. 

 Va., Md.. Del. 

 N. J., Md., Va. 

 Hudson Valley, N. Y. 

 Hudson Valley, N. Y. 



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