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Show 8TB V. BERRY ROP iiiv International News Service.) WASHINGTON. The strawberry crop on the eastsrn shores of Maryland and Virginia will bring into the farm-crs farm-crs and truck fcrdWSTS thla year not 1 than $-'.000,000. an unling to estimates es-timates of growers und bankers in 1. 1. 1 1 section. The bank accounts of the Wlconlco count) formers alone huve Increased $tJ5o,000 as n result oi ;h ii berry shipments for the season. sea-son. The average price is 7.5o per i rate Of twcnty-lv quarts, There ;uc 2B0 crat' S in f car loail, and each car Is valued al $2,500. The shipments so fa from the town of PlttSVllls have been 1 1 I carloadSi and from Marlon in Somerset county, almost twice that number. 00 |