C. S. Perdue's Strawberry Plant Farm. 



THE STRAWBERRY A PROFIT- 

 ABLE CROP 



The first strawberries shipped to Northern 

 markets in 1921 were made about the first of 

 May and commanded high prices. It is said 

 the first crate sold for $19.20, which is equiv- 

 alent to 60 cents a quart. Prices were high 

 all through the season. It pays to raise 

 strawberries for market and where this can- 

 not be done everyone should at least have a 

 plat in the home garden so you can have all 

 the strawberries you want picked fresh from 

 the vines, as they are the most delicious of 

 all fruits. 



Note the clipping from the Philadelphia North 

 American, Sunday, April 10th, 1921: ''When 

 one has a strawberry plat one does not bother 

 much about how it would feel to be without 

 it. Perhaps tho one does wonder why every- 

 one does not have a plat. How much it means 

 to the table and profit if you like to grow 

 strawberries is evidently little realized. One 

 of the easiest crops to grow, to harvest and 

 to dispose of, strawberries show a handsome 

 profit in sections even quite distant from high 

 priced markets. Cost of production is low at 

 6 cents a quart picked and delivered to the 

 nearest town by wagon, truck or express, 

 profit is quite apparent at a rate enjoyed by 

 few other crops. For the home garden a plat 

 20 X 30 feet will supply the table of a family 

 of four with a real treat just as nature made 

 it— fresh, clean and wholesome. Strawberry 

 plants are set out in spring, the locality gov- 

 erning the exact date, well-tilled soil well 

 enriched; a soil that holds moisture is best 

 suited for strawberries and yet there are few 

 sections in which they will not give crops that 

 show profit. Best crops are produced when 

 they are mulched with straw in the fall (a 



