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Show RAISES STRAWBERRIES AS LARGE AS APPLES IN CANADA (By International News Service) CALGARY, Alta -It. A McClunk. stopped and fussed among the plants of his strawberry bed He came up with a monstr r struwberry that could not have been forced Into an ordinary goblet. For a rapt moment he re-. garded its red and luscious neamy Then he ate it. a bite at a time as he would un apple When I was In the Yukon in 1911." said Mr, McCluskey. 'I found the hills covered with wild strawberries. I marvelled at plants that could live through Yukon winters and produce fruit so prolifically and of such delicious de-licious flavor I resented the fate that doomed these wonderful berries to waste their sweetness In an Arctic wildereriss and r-rossed them with domestic do-mestic varieties In my garden. The result has been a hvhrid that Is remarkably re-markably hardy and prolific and produces pro-duces berries of a rich and piquant flavor that frequently weigh two and t hret--quarter ounces " The wild strawberrv that Mr. McCluskey Mc-Cluskey civilized has become widelv disseminated throughout southern Alberta Al-berta and has added to the fame of the igion as a producer of small fruits It was this type of berry that the Prlnco of Wales on his irUrtl to Calgary pronounced the finest he ever ' had tasted Mr McCluskey picked j fiO" boxes of strawberles from a patch l L'a by 120 feet this season. The price at which the berries sold was at the rate of $2,000 an acre. |