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Yields and Profits 



From Allen's True-To-Name Plants 



About $800.00 per Acre. 



Butler Co., Pa., March 4, 1929. — Sometime ago I wrote and placed my order for 5,000 Premier 

 strawberrv plants. I had good results last season with the 4,000 plants I got from you folks in. 

 1926. Sold $523.00 worth at a cost of $103.00.— JESSE H. WEAVER. 



At the Rate of 18,000 Quarts per Acre — Good Work, Fellows. 



Westmoreland Co., Pa., Jan. 29, 1929. — Please find enclosed my order for more of your ex- 

 cellent plants. I find some fine strawberry growing records in your catalog but I believe I can 

 give you a better one than any of these. In the spring of 1927 my brother and I received 375 

 of your Premier strawberry plants apiece. This was in 4-H Club work which was sponsored by 

 the New Kensington Kiwanis Club. This amount of berries was sufficient to plant l-20th acre 

 for each of us. This last summer, 1928, my brother harvested 849 quarts from his plot and I 

 gathered 902 quarts from my plot. This would make an average of over 18,000 quarts for my 

 plot per acre. My net profit from the sale of berries was about $80.00 while my brother's was 

 $76.00. These figures that I give you are 4-H Club record figures and can be verified by our 

 club leader or by Mr. William Treager, our county agent. It takes Westmoreland County and 

 Allen's plants to produce strawberries.— ALONZO FREDERICK. 



A Mark to Shoot At. 



Venango County, Pa., Jan. 3, 1929. — Here is a mark for you to shoot at. Planted 500 Premier 

 (your plants) May 10, 1928. Picked first berries June 25, 1928. Picked last quart July 21, 1928. 

 Recorded 600 quarc baskets (besides fifty quarts spoiled for want of picking) on nine square rods 

 or one-eighteenth of an acre or at the rate of 10,800 quarts to the acre not counting the fifty quarts 

 above referred to.— WILLIAM A. HASKELL. 



640 Quarts from 500 Plants. 



Gloucester Co., Va , Feb. 11, 1929 — In March, 1927, I bought of you 500 Premier plants 

 and put them in a bed 25 ft. by 100 ft. Last spring I picked 640 quarts of the finest berries I 

 ever saw.— T. J. JEFFERSON. 



Hope You Have Even Better Success This Time. 



Mecklenburg Co., N. C, Feb. 7, 1929. — Four years ago I got from you 12,000 plants and set 

 them on four acres of ground. These were the best berries I have ever grown in sixteen years- 

 experience. The second year they picked 600 crates and so'd for $3,500.00 I still have this four 

 acres and they look better than they ever did. This is my reason for buying plants from you. — 

 S. C. BRYAN. 



12,000 Quarts on a Little Under One Acre. Some Yield!! 



Mineral Co., W. Va., Aug. 19, 1929. — I harvested a patch oi strawberries this season that 

 seems to break the record here and has caused quite a bic of doubt. I bought the plants from you,. 

 all Premier. Had 51 rows 63 paces long, 4 ft. apart, and I figure a scant acre. Has 22 rows, 

 1 year old, 1st year to pick; 17 rows 2 years old second year to pick; 12 rows three years old, third 

 year to pick. We picked 376 bushels and I figure we had 25 or 30 bushels to rot. I would like 

 to know what is an average crop in your section. — J. M. STEWARD. 



About 8,000 Quarts per Acre — First Experience. 



Salem Co., N. J., Jan. 14, 1929. — Last year I bought of you 21.000 strawberry plants, but 

 did not plant but about 19,500 of them myself. If you figure my production of 615 crates you 

 will note that it amounts to one quart to each plant approximately. How is that for production, 

 first experience?— J. E. CRAVER. 



Frost Proof — A Crop Every Year Increased Average Profits. 



Butler Co., Pa., July 8, 1929. — I sure am satisfied with Premier. They seem to be frost-proof 

 as we had ten frosts on the blossoms. Please let me know all about Mastodon berries. Would 

 you advise me to plant them. — C. WREN LIKEN. 



Right Varieties Necessary for Sure and Large Profits, 



Huron Co., Ohio, Jan. 9, 1929. — I have been fruit-growing on a 77-acre fruit farm for the last 

 13 years. I have tried many varieties of strawberries but I couldn't find any strawberries that 

 just suited me until I got Premier from you; so I discarded all other varieties but Premier. Premier 

 is the best all-around strawberry that I have ever seen. Now if Chesapeake, Aroma and Big Late 

 can equal Premier I sure will have some layout of berries that I can show anvbody. — E. C. 

 FOWLER. 



