Read what Mr. John W. Moore, Commission Merchant of 

 139 Dock Street, Philadelphia, Pa. says about my Straw- 

 berries and how they sell on the market. 



John W. Moore 



Commission Merchant and Dealer in 



Fruit—Produce—Etc. 



139 DOCK STREET 



Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1917. 

 Mr. C. S. Perdue. 



Dear Sir:--Your list of Strawberry plants include all the 

 best selling varieties. I have handled your berries for the 

 past two seasons and have always found them to be quick 

 sellers at top market prices. Yours very respectfully, 



JOHN W. MOORE. 

 Per M. L. W. 



Prices for Strawberries 



We have reported in Green's Fruit Grower extraordinary yields of straw- 

 berries. In one instance we with some hesitation announced an instance where 

 $500 had been received as net profit for one acre of strawberries, cautioning 

 our readers not to anticipate such remarkable yields for if they did they would 

 be likely to be disappointed. 



Now we have a report, published in The Country Gentleman, where a 

 strawberry grower received 16 cents per quart for the fancy strawberries and 

 12 cents per quart for the seconds or culls. It is stated that the man who 

 bought these berries resold them from his grocery at 20 cents for the selected 

 berries and 16 cents per quart for the second class. The net profit on one- 

 tenth of an acre of this man's strawberries was $87.50, which would amount to 

 $875 per acre if the yield per acre was equal to that of one tenth of an acre. 

 It is not safe to assume tha 1 the same result could be secured from an acre or 

 from ten acres that could be secured from one tenth of an acre, for the smaller 

 piece of ground could be abnormally fertilized with barn-yard manure or with 

 chemicals and could receive the highest cultivation under the most elaborate 

 system of allowing every inch of the ground to be covered with plants 6 to 8 

 inches apart, all securely covered during the vv inter months. 



Nevertheless I am a great friend of the strawberry, which came to my 

 assistance and filled my pockets with jingling silver at a time of life when 

 assistance was greatly needed. I 1 now of no other method by which a poor 

 man can secure cash as readily as through a small plantation of strawberries 

 in his garden. Clipping from Qreen's Fruit Grower. 



