The farmer is so busy and has so many things to attend to that the strawberries will not be likely to get the care that they need. It is quite a science to raise large crops of fine berries; one must read and study, and then attend to them at just the right time all through the season. This pays finely when one makes a business of it. One day my girls were telling me that they wanted to do some work away from home so as to get some pocket money. It struck me this was a laudable ambition, and the strawberry business occurred to me, and I asked them how they would like it to take charge of the whole matter and pocket the money. Well, the result was I gave them the nicest, richest (mark that - not some poor corner) piece of land on the farm, and have engaged from a grower what plants they will want, leaving the choice of varieties to him. I have bought them books enough to study, so they can learn all that is possible in that way. The men will plow the ground when we do the rest of the lot, and harrow and roll it; and when we are cultivating potatoes we will run through the berries; but the girls are to take the whole responsibility. I think it will do them good. It will teach them business. It will be healthful work.

I thought best to start them with a little over one-fourth of an acre, not on account of lack of vim, but because I have learned that concentrated farming is best, in the berry patch as well as elsewhere. In a year or two they can spread out a little if desirable. I do not hesitate to advise any farmer or other person to go at it in this way. It will cost only $5 or $6 for plants. About the market: Make one among the people living right around you. There are ten bushels of strawberries sold in Hudson, where I live, now, where there was a quart when I first came on the farm, and the end is not yet by any means. Plenty of people would buy nice fresh berries at a living price, if they were put right before them, who hardly know the taste of the fruit now. Now, I want to stir up the children as well as the old folks a little by telling what has been done on a single quarter of an acre. I have seen the ground, and spent four days with the man who did it - the venerable J. M. Smith, of Green Bay, Wis. It was not convenient to measure all the land and keep track of the crop, so our friend marked off one-fourth of an acre and picked from it 3,571 quarts - the largest crop, it is said, on record. Just think if you do not know of hundred acre farms that do not do much better.

At 10 cents a quart this would be $357. This is enormous, but not greatly above Mr. Smith's average. From 3½ acres last year, although terribly dry, he sold $2,-215.24 worth berries, besides taking plants to the value of $300 from the same land in the spring. But this was not enough. After the berries were picked he plowed the patch and put in cabbage and celery - $700 more ! Just $3,215.24 from 3½ acres of land ! I took the figures right from his books, where each day's sales were put down. There isn't a question about their exact truth. - T. B. Terry, in Gleanings in Bee Culture.

The Worden Grape is commonly supposed to be a poor shipper. If picked as soon as fully colored, however, it will ship well.

Mr. Worden, the originator of the Worden grape, still lives near Oswego, N. Y., a very old man. He is still working at the origination of new fruits.