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ber 28th and consisted of 48 quarts. During the week of September 12th to 
17th, nearly 100 quarts were gathered and shown at the State Fair in Syracuse. 
In all, nearly 400 quarts were gathered from the 500 plants and they sold at an 
average price of 25c per quart to dealers. 
In 1911 we wished to get all the plants possible, and it being a very dry 
season, we decided to keep all the blossoms off to induce more growth. Later 
on it occurred to us that it would not look well to not have strawberries in 
market during the fall of 1911, after so much had been said about them the 
fall before. So we ordered the cutting of blossoms to be discontinued August 
20th. About September 15th, we begun to get lots of berries and they con¬ 
tinued in good quantity until the ground froze up about November 1st. On 
October 26th, we picked 87 quarts and these were done up in packages and 
sent to horticultural authorities all over the United States. 
In 1912 we set out several acres of these berries. ,Tust at the time we were 
ready to set them, it came on a very wet spell and setting was delayed until late 
1.. J. Farmer’s chltdren after the last strawberries. November 11. 1910. Picture from 
“Farmer on the Strawberry,” free with SIO.OO orders. 
in June. It came off very dry after setting, which was very hard on the 
plants. It is our business primarily to sell plants, and to encourage as much 
growth as possible, we cut off all the bloom from the plants set in the spring 
of 1912 up to October 1st, except a few rows of the new Progressive variety. 
These bore an immense crop of fruit during the past fall. About a half acre 
of Americus and other varieties that had been set in the spring of 1911 were 
kept over to fruit during the season of 1912. This patch was kept free from 
weeds and the first two sets of blossoms were removed in May. The plants 
begun to bear ripe fruit about July 15th and continued to bear good pickings 
until well into November. During one week we gathered 296 quarts. On 
October 30th, we gathered 60 quarts and pickings were made even later than 
this. In all. we gathered nearly 3,000 quarts from about a half acre of plants. 
The varieties that did best on the old bed were Francis, Americus and Pro¬ 
gressive. bnf Town. Productive and Superb did not have as good a chance. The 
