
SFRAWBERRIES 
Home Gardea Commercial Crop 
IT don’t believe there is another fruit in the world that has 
such a universal appeal as strawberries, nor one that is fav- 
ored by and is so readily available to so many people. Can 
you think of anything that locks more arresting than a bed 
of strawberries in early June with the full red of the ripe 
and ready berries on the background of the green foliage? 
If anything does look better, it must be the crate of baskets 
full of those red beauties. 
Can you think of anything that tastes bet- 
ter than those ripe berries fresh from the vine 
ona June morning? If you can, it must be the 
proverbial short cake at dinner, or the fruit 
that delights your eye and palate when it 
comes from your freezer on Thanksgiving or 
Christmas, six months later. 
Just pick a few of those berries. Is there anything you 
ean think of in fruit or food that matches their smooth, 
fine skin as your hands run through the rich foliage? 
Now lift the basket of berries to your face and breathe 
that rich aroma. Where else can you excel it? Or match it? 
Where else can you find a fruit usable in so many ways— 
as fresh sauce, in short cake, as frozen fruit, as preserves, 
in pies, in drinks, as flavoring in many things? 
And happily, this is not the wandering of 
one’s imagination on a winter evening. This 
wonderful fruit so appealing to everyone is so 
adaptable to climate that it is common in 
every state. It thrives on such a variety of 
soils that you may have it wherever you live. 
It is yours for the asking and the doing. 
Strawberries come right down to earth, too. They will not 
only give you from your own garden quantities of as de- 
licious a fruit as the world knows, but they also offer an 
excellent opportunity commercially. In these days of de- 
clining farm prices the farmer with a relatively small acre- 
age may find in strawberries a very good chance to augment 
his income in a farm project which requires little capital 
outlay, little costly equipment, but a quick cash return for 
his investment. Larger growers already know these oppor- 
tunities. 
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