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THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD 
Keep the Boy on the Farm 
We believe every farmer, or fruit-grower, would like to keep his boy on the farm, would like for him 
to go ahead and make an even greater success than his father. The first step in this direction is to get him 
interested, make the work as agreeable to him as possible, and make it show a good return to him. You 
can’t do better than to let him have ground for a berry patch all his own. He will be interested right off, 
he will like the work and take a pride in it; and he will be especially happy in marketing the fruit. Working 
in beautiful fruit is always a pleasure, and it will be more so to your boy when he begins to realize a big 
profit on his berries, either on a local market, or from shipments to the city. Let him start a patch. Our 
collection D (page 6) is just what he needs to make a successful start. Help him get started and he won’t 
want to leave the farm. 
There is Money in Growing Strawberries 
QUICK RETURNS. One of the things that makes 
Strawberry-growing so attractive is the quick 
returns that are realized. In growing any other 
kind of fruit—blackberries, raspberries, peaches, 
apples, etc.—two, three, four, or even six years are 
required before fruit is produced and even then not 
a full crop. Strawberries are different. The plants 
are set in spring; they grow just one year and then 
produce a full crop of fancy fruit. 
TWO CROPS. More than that, the beds can be 
renewed just after the crop is off (see page 11) and 
another crop can be produced the next year—just 
as good as the first and with very little expense. 
Profits 
How much we can expect depends on the land and 
the market. Given good care on good land, berries 
will produce from 3,000 to 15,000 quarts per acre, 
and with even a fair market, this will pay the grower 
handsomely. Here are a few reports from some of 
our customers. 
$ 2,000 AN ACRE 
February n, 1916, Clay County, Ind. 
Dear Sirs: I received your 1916 Book of Berries this spring, 
as usual; having received it regularly for the past 15 or 16 years, 
so long that I would be greatly disappointed not to find it 
among my mail at the appointed time. I have raised berries 
from plants received from you of the Senator Dunlap variety 
that made me nearly $2,000 per acre. I know that this sounds 
like a fairy tale, but it is true. The ground was accurately 
measured and an accurate account kept. Of course, this was 
an exception, but they have always paid. Cordially yours, 
Jas. L. Tucker. 
15,000 QUARTS PER ACRE 
February 8, 1916, Sullivan County, Ind. 
Dear Sirs: Find under separate cover a picture of one of 
my Strawberry fields [see page 1] which yielded 15,000 quarts to 
the acre. They were Fendall, pollenized by Aroma, bought 
from you. Mr. Allen, I am going to order from you again this 
spring. 1 have bought Strawberry plants of you for ten years, 
from 2,000 to 6,000 every year. Can say without fear or favor, 
the plants always come on time, in good shape, good count, and 
best of all, true to name. Yours truly, John R. Snyder. 
A GOOD CROP 
February 29, 1916, Page County, Va. 
Dear Sirs: The plants ordered from you were the finest I 
ever saw. Set the 1,200 in 1914. March 20, and gathered 1,280 
quarts the* following spring. There are no better plants than 
Allen’s. Sincerely. W. O. May. 
FANCY PRICES FOR PROGRESSIVE BERRIES 
January 15, 1916, Montgomery County, Ohio. 
Kind Sirs: I received your catalog; it is grand. From the 
Progressives shipped me last year, I furnished berries to the 
Algonquin Hotel, Hollencamp’s Brewery, and many private 
customers. The Dayton Herald and Journal gave me some 
free advertisements in their papers. It is useless to add that 
1 got fancy prices for those Progressives. I was in the berry 
business 18 years ago, when you couldn’t give berries away in 
Montgomery County. We shipped everything to Toledo and 
Detroit; but times have changed. Dayton can’t get all the 
home-grown berries she needs. You can look for a nice order 
from me again this year. I surely will include Hustler. Yours 
for fine plants, Jesse A. Prugh. 
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HIS HOME WITH BERRIES 
FROM OUR PLANTS 
January 25, 1916, Grant County, Ind. 
Dear Sirs: To you, Mr. Allen, we give credit for our success 
in Strawberry-growing. Our new home, that we erected about 
ten years ago, is noted as the “Strawberry Home” and every¬ 
body knows where we got our plants. The proceeds from the 
plants we received from you paid for it. Yours very truly, 
A. L. FipGHNER. 
One of our western customers who is pleased with his bumper crop of berries grown from our plants 
