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The price of cauliflowers is less subject to fluct- 

 uation than that of most other vegetables. There 

 is comparatively little competition between different 

 localities, and about the only causes of low prices 

 are temporary and local over-production, and forced 

 sales caused by damaged stock. One year with 

 another, a dollar and a half a dozen may be realized 

 on good heads, which is more than double the aver- 

 age price of cabbages. Contracts are taken, how- 

 ever, at as low as fifty cents a dozen to supply pickle- 

 factories. Under favorable conditions fully as large 

 a percentage of cauliflowers will head as of cabbages, 

 so that in a good location, with proper care, the cauli- 

 flower crop is a profitable one. It may be well to 

 remind growers, however, that one should not attempt 

 to sell a large quantity of cauliflowers in a small 

 market, for even at a low price people will not buy 

 largely of what they are not accustomed to using. 

 But it is surprising to what an extent a market may 

 be developed for this vegetable. No one who has 

 once used the cauliflower will thereafter do without 

 it, if it can be obtained at a reasonable price. There 

 is absolutely no necessary limit to the market for 

 this vegetable, providing reasonable care is exercised 

 in creating and supplying the demand. The price 

 in this country ought always to be maintained if pos- 

 sible at at least double that of cabbages, not only on 

 account of the greater delicacy of the cauliflower. 



