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shown on the part of the packer as to 
the ripeness of the fruit. The greatest 
possible care should be taken to select 
fruit that will ripen evenly, so that when 
it reaches the market and the crate is 
opened the fruit will present an even 
appearance. We know of growers who 
watch all these details carefully, and 
their fruit is in demand at the highest 
market price. There are shippers in the 
Biscayne Bay country whose packages 
are never opened, the buyers taking 
them at a little above the highest market 
quotations. 
Each year there is a marked improve¬ 
ment on these points, and throughout 
the entire North, East and West there is 
a great demand for the Biscayne Bay 
country tomatoes. 
ACTUAL EXAMPLES. 
In closing this already too long article 
we wish to give a few results that we 
have gathered from the farmers. In each 
case we give the acreage, kind of land, 
number of crates shipped, average price 
received: 
No. i—Twenty acres; marl; fertilizer, 
stable manure and commercial fertilizer; 
8,000 crates; $1.44, net average price; 
total, $11,520. 
No. 2—One-half acre; marl; stable 
manure and commercial; 216 crates; 
$1.50 average net price; total, $324. 
No. 3—Irish potatoes; 1 acre; marl; 
65 barrels; fertilizer, stable manure and 
commercial; no price. 
No. 4—One-half acre; tomatoes; 
marl; stable manure and commercial; 
275 crates; $1.40 average net price; to¬ 
tal, $385. 
No. 5—Fifteen acres; tomatoes; sand 
prairie; intensive cultivation; 1 ton fer¬ 
tilizer to the acre, commercial; not all 
returns in yet, but the owner said it will 
net from $5,000 to $7,000. Many of our 
best growers are of the opinion that this 
crop will net the grower from $7,000 to 
$10,000; the grower is one of our most 
conservative men and puts the net re¬ 
sults as first stated. 
No. 6—Two acres; high pine land; net 
proceeds, $1,520; 1500 pounds fertilizer 
used on the two acres. 
No. 7—Five acres; marl; 7,000 pounds 
commercial and 1 ton stable manure; 
commenced plowing December 20; new 
land; No. 7 is not through shipping yet. 
So far he has shipped 300 crates to the 
acre; net average price, $1.65. 
No. 8—Five acres; tomatoes; sand 
prairie; fertilizer used, 1000 pounds 
commercial to the acre, besides 6 bar¬ 
rels stable manure. No. 8 is not through 
shipping. So far he has shipped 305 
crates to the acre, and his net average 
price has been $1.65. 
No. 9—One and one-third acres; to¬ 
matoes; sand prairie; fertilizer, commer¬ 
cial and stable manure; 1100 crates; 
$1.82 net; net returns, $2,002. 
No. 10—Ten acres; plowed three 
times; muck; 1500 pounds commercial 
fertilizer to the acre; 400 crates esti¬ 
mated; not through shipping; do not 
know average price. 
No. 11—Ten acres; plowed once; 
muck; same amount of fertilizer as 
above; 250 crates per acre; no average 
price stated. 
No. 12—Ten acres; muck; listed; 
total failure; fertilizer the same as the 
two above. 
No. 13—Nine acres; marl; 2 1-2 
acres plowed in August, all plowed in 
December; total shipment, 2,600 crates; 
shipments from the 2 1-2 acres plowed in 
