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with cauliflowers and the price there averages fully 

 as good as anywhere in the country. Considerable 

 amounts are grown near the city, and small quan- 

 tities are shipped in from Michigan, Wisconsin, Cen- 

 tral Illinois, and even from California. One pickle 

 factory at Crystal Lake, near Chicago, contracted, 

 in 1874, for 16 acres of cauliflowers, besides other 

 produce. The pickle factories always furnish a 

 market for any surplus when the price is low, or 

 the heads have become disfigured in any way. In 

 fact, the supply of home grown cauliflowers is 

 always insufficient for pickling purposes, and large 

 amounts have to be annually imported, notwith- 

 standing the tarifp, which, formerly ten per cent., 

 ad valorum, is now forty -five per cent. Imported 

 •auliflowers are brought mainly from Germany and 

 Holland, and come packed in brine in 60 gallon 

 casks. Large quantities of mixed pickles contain 

 ing cauliflower are also imported. 



