Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1921-07-21
Sidelights On The Straw.
berry Business.

, in Missouri, and a few reason.
why Mansfield and surrounding
country should get busy and
keep busy until we get out q
hundred or more acres of straw
berries in this country. This vi
cinity is better adapted to berry
growing than Is the extreme
Southweste part of the state;
the berries grow larger, are
sweeter, and are a much surer
crop than on the lower lands
in the southwest.
They bloom a little later and
the danger of frost is not so
great. Of course it will take a
little work and effort to get out a
berry patch, and to take care o
it in "a manner that we may get
highest results from it; but do
you know thing now days
that man can get into that he
can make a barrel" of mony
with just a little effort; it seems
that the strawberry business
will come about as near it, just
now, as anything. The gold
bricks" have just about all been
picked up. Read what our ex.
changes, from the strawberry
district, are saying, about what
the berry growers are doing:
More strawberries were ship.
ped this season than last, accord.
ing to the records of the Ozark
Fruit Growers Association. Up|
to June 1st the association had
shipped from Monett alone IL
cars of berries. against Is cars
last year. The Independent as.
sociation shipped from Monett
ii cars of berries this year and
Is cars last year. The total ship.
ments of the two associations for
that section have been 1853 car
loads, against 1874 last season.
Berry growers report more
berries were shipped from
Carthage thanlast year, although
Carthage growers have confined
themselves largely to local sales
Few Carthage berry growers are
members of any shipping associ.
alton,
Late rains have helped the
berries more than was thought
possible, and the picking will
continue all this week. Heavy |
picking is continueing around
Carthage.
Barry county reports l:5 cars
shipped, bringing about $3.50, 900
for the crop this year. Cassviile
shipbed the last car of berries by
freight today. Future ship
ments will be made by express.
Wheaton in Barry county, was
the heaviest shipper of berries
this year.
The Sarcoxie shipments may
continue up to the middle of
next week The rains have given
new life to the berry industry
and growers are getting crop
they little expected two weeks
ago. The same is true of the
fields in Newton and Mcdonald
counties. - Springfield Leader.
The best yield of Strawberries
so far reported at Marionville
this season was PSI crates from
three acres by Pow Yoachum.
The ground on which they grew
seems especially adapted to them
and they withStood the frosts
exceptionally well.
The Sarcoxie berry crop total
ed 65 carloads of shipped berries )
bringing $llS,OOO, an approx.
mate average of $4,l5 per crate,
according to figures of the two
Sarcoxie growers associations.
1t is said that while the crop
was not as large as had been
predicted early in the spring,
the growers netted fair profit.
An original estimate Of $50
cars had been made by the assO
ciatidnS. Freezes and frCsts
cut down the crop. Dry wealth.
er at the first of the picking
season also hurt the prospects,
but rains later prolonged the
season, much to the profit of
the urnWerS. |