One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

155. ASSORTED STRAWBERRIES.--Here is the experience of a novice: “I ran

a ditch through my wet and almost worthless meadow land, and set it out with strawberry plants. The second year I had an enormous crop. The larger berries were separated from the smaller, and the show thus made by the assorted fruit was magnificent. For 600 quarts I received $300, it being a little early for strawberries in the New York market.” It pays to grow early and large fruit.