Extra Money 
From Family Gardens and Small Profit Plots 
Strawberries "fill the bill" for this purpose for many reasons. 
Some farmers' wives have their "Egg Money". Berries work in nicely with 
poultry. Besides "Berry Money" is possible for many who do not have chickens or 
cannot give the all the year around attention which chickens require. 
"Berry Money" comes early. All the work is out of the way before vegetable 
canning season comes along. 
No crop is more suitable where boys, girls and women must help. It can be a 
real family crop with the work light, interesting and usually quite profitable. 
For those who have part time jobs, or where advancing age or poor health 
prevents full time work, strawberries are most suitable for supplementing the income. 
To start is quite simple. Very little capital and very little land is necessary. 
Any good garden soil will grow nice crops of berries. 
Previous experience is not necessary. Many are finding our "Common Sense 
Methods" (Pages 24-27) give sufficient guidance to grow strawberries successfully and 
profitably. 
Wonderful Berries and Easy to Sell 
Marshall Co., Ind. January 26, 1938. Please find 
i attached order for 625 plants. You might be interested 
i in our planting results from about 500 Fairfax, Dorsett 
I and Premier made in the spring of 1936. This was the 
year of the great heat and drought. However, we ran 
water from the river to our garden and we really did 
soak the strawberries, and by fall they looked grand, 
and we covered them up with rye straw. In the spring 
we surely had some big green crowns coming through 
the straw all over the patch and the entire bed was 
soon a mass of bloom and later — such berries! especially 
Fairfax. We had one that was 2%" x 334" and there 
were many quarts 2 x 23^" and many gallons of great 
fine bright red berries. We did not plant any to sell, 
but there were so many from such a small patch that 
we had to sell our surplus and they ran after us from 
then on to get all we could not use. — Mr. W. M. 
Conover. 
756 Quarts from 400 Plants 
Penobscot Co., Maine. January 10, 1938. In the 
spring of 1936 I bought 1,400 plants from you. The 
growing season was very dry and the following spring 
was the hottest and driest for years. I raised them just 
as you advise in your book. From the 400 Premier 
plants we picked 756 quarts of No. 1 fruit for which 
we received 19c a quart or better wholesale. We made 
good on the Everbearers, sold some for 50c a quart at 
the roadside. — Mr. Ray P. Potter. 
Did Well with a Few — Wants More 
Montgomery Co., Md. July 13th, 1938. I got 300 
plants from you in the spring of 1937 and they gave 
us a wonderful crop, even the Everbearers. We sold 
over $10.00 worth and had lots for our own use be- 
sides giving our neighbors quite a few. Practically all 
the plants lived and as we did so well with them 
thought we would try it on a little larger scale as a side 
line. — Mr. M. Hersberger. 
$150.00 Clear from One-Fifth of an Acre 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. March 17th, 1938. We have 
I found your plants better than we can produce but you 
have yet to show pictures of berries in your catalog of 
the varieties we have that we couldn't equal. Our 
Fairfax were the talk of the country and our Premiers 
j sold at 20c, or 2 qts. for 35c when ordinary berries sold 
I for 10c or 3 for a quarter. On less than one fifth of an 
acre we cleared $150.00. — Mr. Guy Caywood. 
First Venture — Very Fine Results 
Medina Co., Ohio. July 15th, 1938. Last spring I 
purchased 200 Premier strawberry plants from you. 
This is the first time I ever planted strawberries. I 
sold 425 quarts, and about 20 quarts were used in the 
home. It rained frequently and the berries had a good 
size to the end. Some were extremely large. On May 
12th we had a killing frost that froze our apples and 
grapes but I covered the berries and even a small piece 
left uncovered did not freeze and I was the only one 
around who had berries so they sold fast and we got 
20c per quart right through. I was very well pleased 
for this was my first venture. — Mr. Y. J. Petelka. 
