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 _ THOMAS P. COOPER, Dean and Director
Circular No. 216 September, 1927
Published in connection with the agricultural extension work carried
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I Commercial Strawberry Growing in Western Kentucky
BY W. W. MAGILL and WM. C. JOHNSTONE
. Strawberries as a Cash Crop: Strawberries are a desirable cash
i crop for western Kentucky where a sufficient acreage is raised in
the section to make carload selling possible. One of the outstanding
advantages of strawberiies as a cash crop is that the grower gets a
cash return in June, at a time when ordinarily there is little income.
'Strawberry picking furnishes profitable employment for the women
and children of the neighborhood.
Probable Returns: The average yield of strawberries in western
4 Kentucky is approximately 50 24-quart crates per acre. It should be
remembered, however, that the average yield of corn in the same
area is about 25 bushels and of tobacco about 700 pounds. The careful
. grower of strawberries should generally produce from 100 to 150
crates per acre, just as the careful tobacco grower produces much
more than the 700 pound average of tobacco. Yields of over 200 crates
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