The best growers of almost any crop nearly always make a profit. To help 

 place many prospective growers in the class of the best, we have these sugges- 

 tions to offer: 



1. Select some of your best land. You will 

 put relatively a large amount of labor and 

 expect relatively a large return from your 

 strawberries. Do not waste your money and 

 labor on poor land. Give your strawberries 

 some of the best, and give it careful prepara- 

 tion. (See pages 8-10.) 



2. Set fancy high yielding varieties best 

 suited to your purpose. We have tried to tell 

 you the honest truth about all our varieties. 

 We have summarized our conclusions on page 

 30. It should not be hard for anyone to know 

 what to plant, so get the best, as it is this 

 kind that brings the highest prices. 



3. Grow as many as you can handle prop- 

 erly but no more. The amount of other work 

 you are attempting to do, the amount of land 

 you have available, the locality in which you 

 live, and the methods you intend to use in 

 marketing would all have a bearing on this 

 question. A half acre field on good land, well 

 cared for and handled properly in marketing 

 might well give you more profit than twice the 

 acreage poorly cared for. 



4. Get good, dependable, well rooted, true 

 to name plants. Of course we hope you will 

 get your plants from us and we believe you 

 will find it profitable to do so, but wherever 

 you purchase, be sure they come up to the 

 standards we have outlined on page 6. 



5. If other crops have failed and you want 

 to try enough berries to make a real business 

 out of it, do not forget that the motor trucks 

 put all cities within 100 miles or so in your 

 market territory, and keep in mind also, that 

 even through the depression, fancy berries have 

 generally returned enough to show a fair 

 profit. 



6. For marketing locally advertise a little 

 either by a small ad in your local paper, or by 

 a display in somebody's shop window. Try to 

 have a fancy, high quality product and when 

 you have, "blow your own horn" whenever and 

 wherever possible. 



7. Roadside Market. If on or near a well 

 travelled highway try the roadside market. 

 Many growers are disposing of their crops, 

 strawberries as well as others in this way at 

 fair prices. 



8. Be on the look out for something better. 

 If you have varieties that have done well for 

 you, stick to them, but stick only until you 

 find something better. We feel that the new 

 Government berries, Fairfax and Dorsett are 

 of such outstanding quality that when gen- 

 erally grown they will actually increase the 

 total consumption of berries. So we repeat, 

 try out the new ones. The successful growers 

 are constantly on the look-out for something 

 better in methods and materials as well as in 

 varieties. 



Yields and Profits 



From 400 Plants, 600 Quarts Finest 

 Strawberries 



Russell County, Ky., March 4, 1932. — On March 24th 

 I ordered 500 Premier strawberry plants from you ; gave 

 my daughter 100 plants. From the 400 plants I kept I 

 picked 604 quarts of the finest strawberries I ever saw 

 last year besides what was eaten in the patch. Enclosed 

 find order for 1600 more Plants (1200 Premier) (200 Big 

 Joe) (200 Chesapeake). My first order arrived in good 

 shape. Every plant lived. Mr. L. F. Meece. 



$91.95 From 500 Plants— Big Joe and Wm. Belt 

 Are Good 



Northampton County, Pa., January 25, 1932. — I want 

 to write you a few lines about my strawberries that I got 

 two years ago. I got 250 Big Joe and 250 Wm. Belt and 

 not a one died for me. They all grew but later the cut 

 worms took some but after all I felt very proud of my 

 berries. I picked four hundred and fifty-nine boxes and 

 according to the times I thought I got a good price for 

 them, 891.95. Your plants were the nicest ones I ever 

 had. I had a berry 6 1 ? inches around and two inches 

 long. Did you have any bigger ones? 



Mrs. Charles Kunsman. 



At the Rate of $1100.00 Per Acre At Wholesale 

 Prices 



Lawrence County, Pa., February 25, 1932. — Please find 

 order for plants. Planted 3/16 acre two years ago and 

 they were good. We picked 60 bushel from those planted 

 last season, mostly Premier. Am ordering early, but 

 will notify later as to date of shipment. The berries 

 commanded a good price as did not sell any for less than 

 S3.50 wholesale, when the poorer berries were selling as 

 low as 12.50 to $3.00. 



Mr. C E. Fullerton. 



Premier Produces — 2,000 Plants, 2,000 Quarts, 

 Many Left 



Monroe County, Pa., June 21, 1932. — I wish some infor- 

 mation on how to care for my berries that had fruit this 

 year. The plants did fine. As you know I bought 2000 

 Premier last year. I have picked 2000 quarts of berries 

 ar.d still have several crates to pick. Also please tell me 

 the best way to handle Mastodon. I kept the first blos- 

 soms off and intend to keep the runners off this year. 

 Your plants surely produce. 



Mr. Harry Lynn. 



Did You Ever Think of This? 



Strawberries yield quicker returns than any 

 other fruit crop. With no other fruit can you 

 set plants or trees one spring and harvest a 

 bumper crop of fine fruit the next spring, 

 thirteen or fourteen months later. 



Strawberries bring early money. They are 

 one of the first crops to be harvested in the 

 spring. They bring in money when most 

 needed, just after a hard winter, or just in time 

 to help finance other crops which you may be 

 planning. 



Part time jobs can be profitably rounded out 

 into full time jobs with strawberries. A small 

 acreage can be made to do so much that a 



minimum of land is necessary. If no land of 

 your own is available, perhaps a neighbor 

 would let you use that vacant lot. Keep in 

 mind, however, that fertile land pays best. 



Little money is needed to start. The only 

 cash outlay required is for a few simple tools, 

 a little fertilizer and your plants. Once your 

 land is plowed and harrowed, a trowel or spade 

 and hoe will be about all the tools needed. 

 Commercial fertilizer most suited for straw- 

 berries does not need the highest priced ele- 

 ments. It's cost is very moderate. Straw- 

 berry plants, even the best ones, were never 

 more reasonable in price. 



