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keep a steady stream of outside air passing through and 

 over the load, thereby insuring good ventilation. It would 

 seem that it is the railway companies which are respon- 

 sible for dumping upon us, in the months of May and 

 June, such quantities of half diseased green fruit and 

 vegetables. 



The grower of garden vegetables for shipment 

 should plant a variety and not confine himself to one, as 

 cucumbers, cabbage or tomatoes, for he never knows 

 when the market will be glutted, and if it be of that sort 

 on which he has built his expectations of profit he may 

 be sadly disappointed. In shipping, it is better to ship 

 continuously to three or four established markets than to 

 attempt to follow high quotations from various sources, 

 as the conditions which regulate the prices may change 

 daily, and points offering highest prices one day may be 

 lowest the next. 



It is a mistake to divide a limited quantity of fruit 

 or vegetables between many commission merchants, as 

 the returns in small consignments are eaten up by the 

 expenses of cartage and handling. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Implements for the Farm and Garden. 



The improvements in the design and practicability 

 of farming and gardening implements and tools, during 

 the last fifty years, has fully kept pace with the mechan- 

 ical development in machinery used in other arts, and it 

 may not be out of place to make a brief reference to the 

 leading mechanical contrivances used for vegetable gar- 

 dening. • 



Plows. — The prices for the ordinary wood or iron 

 beam plows range from five to twenty dollars, and for the 



