Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticulture Society for the Year 1897, Vol. 31: Being the Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Held at Springfield, December 28, 29 and 30, 1897; Also Proceedings of the Northern, Central and Southern District Societies and a Number of County Societies for the Year 1897 Another objection made is to the time it takes to raise the fruit. You can raise a crop of strawberries as soon as you can turn a crop of corn. I can raise a crop of Early Richmond cherries a good deal quicker than some farmers have ever turned a crop of corn. You can raise a crop of small fruit quicker than you can raise a steer and sell it, and quicker than you can raise fancy horses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.