Strawberry Is a Favorite. 



The strawberry leads the lists of small fruits in popularity because of its 

 wide range of adaptation to soil and climatic condition, says the vegetable gar- 

 den expert. The large number of varieties gives a long season of the most 

 delicious fruit. Its ease of culture and its early season of bearing make it a 

 desirable home and market crop. The strawberry is most productive in a 

 sandy loam soil, but if this type of soil is not available it may be grown with 

 good results in many of the heavier soils. Freshly broken land is usually ideal 

 for a strawberry bed provided it has first been planted to some cultivated crop, 

 such as potatoes. Sod land is likely to be infested with white grubs which are 



dangerous to a tender plant. Clipping from Farming Business, July 8, 1916. 



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 w T e 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 S87. 50, which would amount to 

 S875 per acre if the yield per acre was equal to that of one-tenth of an acre. 

 It is not safe to assume that 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 barnyard rranure 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 wintry 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 

 assisance was greatly needed. I know of no other method by which a poor 

 man can secure cash as readily as through a small plantation of strawberri es 



in his garden. Clipping from Qreen's Fruit Grower, July 1916. 



The Tingle Printing Co., Pittsville, Md. 



