EXPERIENCE TEACHES THAT CATSKILL IS A WINNER 

 From Maryland to Minnesota ! ! 



MAY we start with our own here in 

 Maryland? In 1935 we picked 

 32,000 quarts from three acres of 

 Catskill and received $3500.00 for them. 

 Since then we have had many fine 

 crops of Catskill but have no accurate 

 records of yields and profits as most 

 of our plants have been dug for cus- 

 tomers. 



Mr. Stanley Hall of Pierce County, 

 Wisconsin, wrote the following report 

 to the secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society, published in February, 1939, 

 "Wisconsin Horticulture". "After try- 

 ing many new varieties of strawberries 

 we have only found one dependable 

 new variety and that is Catskill. In 

 spite of adverse conditions it produced 

 at the rate of 9,000 quarts per acre the 

 i past season." This, of course, referred 



to the 1938 crop. After the 1939 crop 

 Mr. Rahmlow, Secretary of the Society, 

 reported in the same paper, "Of all the 

 new strawberries tested by our mem- 

 bers during the last two years the new 

 variety, Catskill, looks the most promis- 

 ing. — Some growers are enthusiastic 

 about it, liking especially its heavy 

 production." 



Mr. S. M. Thursen, of Hennepin Co., 

 Minn., talked about Catskill at a berry 

 growers meeting at his farm in the 

 summer of 1939. He told them that 

 the Catskill was the best June bearing 

 strawberry he has tried. It will equal 

 the Premier in production and the ber- 

 ries are larger. He received from 20((' 

 to 50^ per crate more for the Catskill 

 this year (1939). 



And from Maine to Missouri 1 1 1 



Here's what Mr. Sydney B. Thomas 

 of Cumberland Co., Maine, says about 

 varieties: "The strawberry plants I got 

 from you two years ago did very well 

 last season. The Premier was asi good 

 as usual and the Dorsett and Fairfax 

 had a good crop of berries, but I wish 

 to speak of the few Catskill plants I 

 got to try out. I must say I never saw 

 plants grow such large strawberries 

 and so many on a plant. I was very 

 much pleased with them and have 

 given some of my friends your name 

 and told them about Catskill. I ordered 

 500 last year and hope they will do as 

 well this season. Inclosed you will 

 find money order and my order for this 

 year's plants." 



The Secretary of a large berry grow- 

 ers' association in Connecticut told us 

 personally that many of his members 

 set some Catskill in 1938. As they had 

 not yet fruited at planting time in 

 spring 1939, they planted nearly all 

 Premier, their old standby. He added 

 that the trial plantings, fruiting in 

 1939, were more productive and more 

 profitable than Premier and that many 

 more Catskill would be planted in that 

 section this spring. 



**People buy my Dorsett and Cats- 

 kill berries as fast as we can get them 

 picked," states Mr. Ambrose Schneider, 

 St. Charles Co., Mo. 



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Typical late berry of Catskill 



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