STRAWBERRY 
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We KNOW that strawberry gardens are profitable ! Thousands of growers all over the country are 
now making good profits from large family garden plots or small commercial plantings of straw- 
berries. Thousands more have the space and the opportunity to do it for themselves. As an extra 
money or cash crop strawberries stand out in many ways. 
(1) More money from a small space is possible and probable with strawberries than with any other 
crop we know. 
(2) As a family income project strawberries are admirably adapted. Every member of the family, old 
and young, can help. 
(3) Those having part-time or short-hour jobs can use a few of the extra hours pleasurably and 
profitably in growing strawberries. 
(4) Good early training can be provided for boys and girls by having their own plantings of straw- 
berries. The rewards from their work and their responsibility in growing and selling berries will 
give a start in the right direction. (See letter of Dale Aukerman.) 
(5) Not only are strawberries the quickest fruit crop to bear after planting but they start ripening 
earliest in the spring to bring in a cash crop before other things get under-way. 
No crop is easier to sell. Good strawberries have an eye appeal and a tastiness which attract the 
buyer. An ad in your local paper, a short spot on the local radio station, a sign along the road, or 
maybe just a word spread among a few friends will nearly always bring buyers to take all the berries 
you have to sell— and at good prices. 
Hamilton Co., Ohio, Jan. 18, 1950. I just received your Book 
of Berries for 1950. You know what you are talking about when you 
say, "Don't grow too many." From the few hundred I have bought 
from you I have gotten more 
out of them than I saw a 
farmer get from almost an 
acre. I am one man well 
pleased with your 
plants. I have sold 
enough berries to 
buy this garden 
tractor. 
Jos. Wiesman 
Preble Co., Ohio, June 19, 1950. We have been 
very satisfied with your plants as growers and 
bearers. I am raising strawberries to work my way 
through college. I do not know that this is tried very 
often, but I have found that even a small acreage is 
very profitable. So far berries have served very well 
as a sideline crop on a general farm with this par- 
ticular economic purpose. In spite of some set-backs 
we remain convinced that berries are the most 
profitable and enjoyable crop the farmer can grow. 
Dale Aukerman 
Broome Co., N. Y., Aug. 7, 1950. The spring of 
'49, I purchased 100 Sparkle and 100 Temple straw- 
berry plants from you. This year we picked 435 
quarts and sold $130.55 worth, besides using plenty 
and giving friends and relatives some of them. Of 
course, this has been an ideal year, plenty of rains at 
the right time. I think the Temple is the best berry I 
have ever raised for size, flavor and productiveness. 
We picked 72 quarts at one picking, and they lasted 
over four weeks. c B Cummings 
Fulton Co., Ohio, Jan. 27, 1950. 1 want to let you 
know that we like your plants very much. On 500 
plants of Premier berries we made about $400.00. 
That in the first season they produced. 
Kenneth Overmyer 
Cecil Co., Md., March 28, 1950. We picked 276 
quarts from the 200 plants I got from you in 1949. 
Carl M. Walker 
