of All Kinds at the Very Lowest Figures. 
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average price received for these berries was 20 cents per quart. It would 
have averaged 25 cents in a normal season, but there were periods of two 
weeks at a time when it was so ■wet that we could not get on the ground to 
pick them, many berries rotted and those sent to market were not in good 
shape. Fall strawberries will stand as much wet as any fruit, but peaches and 
other fruits rotted by the carload the past fall. 
People will buy fall strawberries and pay a good price for them when in 
good condition. They do not sell well in a cold, wet, sour spell of w'eather. 
Peaches hurt the sale. They extend over such a long season, however, that 
there is alw'ays some time that there is a brisk demand. I find that they sell 
best right after other strawberries are done, and very late in the season. If 
the w'eather is w'arm, they will sell at any time. Sunshine gives them flavor 
and also puts people in a condition to crave them. Cold, wet, sour weather 
is the bane of the fall strawberry gro-wer, as it is the strawberry grower of 
June. 
I shipped these berries to all the local cities and some to New York. They 
carry much better than strawberries in the regular season, being of more sub¬ 
stance and not so watery. 1 found the best market for them to be at fancy 
restaurants, large hotels and fancy groceries. Many people w'ho wished to pro¬ 
vide something novel in the line of refreshments, ordered four quarts or more 
for tea parties, at homes and the like. 
In 1911 we showed several quarts of berries and about twenty plants in 
full bearing in pots, at the State Fair in Syracuse. In 1912 we had several 
plants in pots and over 100 quarts at the State Fair. The most of these 
berries w’ere given out to the crowds that flocked by our booth, one berry to 
each person. 
To show' how the fall strawberry fever affects a person, I will cite twm 
instances. I will give the real names if anyone requests them. 
In the spring of 1911 w-e sent several dozens of these fall bearing straw¬ 
berries to a gentleman who is at the head of a big business concern in New 
York City and whose summer home is way out on Long Island. These plants 
fruited for him during the fall of 1911 and he was so delighted that he has 
been telling people about it ever since. Every few days he sends me a name 
to send catalogue to, or somebody whites me that he told them to ask me for 
a catalogue. He has also sent us no less than half a dozen orders that he has 
paid for himself for plants to go to his friends in many states and one order 
w'ent to England. 
During the past fall, a lady who resides in a village near Syracuse, was 
motoring up from New* York City and on the way stopped off at Deposit, 
in Broome county. A man there w'ho has these fall bearing straw'berries from 
us, served this lady with strawberries for breakfast: this was in September. 
She w'as so pleased and interested that he gave her my catalogue which she 
looked over on her way home. When she got home she sent me a $10 order 
for plants. When I sent her the plants I also had a copy of “Farmer on the 
Straw'berry” mailed to her, and when she got it and read it nothing w'ould 
do but she must come up and see the berries in fruiting. On a very low'ery 
afternoon, an automobile drew up before our place and this lady and her 
friend alighted and asked to see the fall bearing strawberries. The writer 
showed the ladies over the fields of berries and when they left they took eight 
quarts of the fruit and another supply of plants. The total sales to these 
parties amounted to $54.75. 
The one prime distinguishing point between fall bearing strawberries and 
common kinds is that they blossom continuously from May until winter, while 
common kinds blossom but once and that in May. If you cut off the blossoms 
from common varieties of strawberries in May, that is the last of the blossom¬ 
ing, but if you cut off the bloom from these fall or everbearing varieties, they 
will soon blossom out again and you must keep cutting off blossoms or they 
will bear fruit in a few weeks. You can get fruit at any time you wish after 
May. They will bear in June and in the fall, too, if you w'ant them to, but it 
soon exhausts the plants and it is better to cut the blossoms up to August first 
and allow them to fruit only in the fall, using other and common kinds to 
bear the June crop. Common kinds of strawberries cannot be made fall fruit¬ 
ing by cutting the blossoms. Everybody of experience know's this. The Pan 
