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tying the new growth of leaves at the tips to 

 blanch for about a month. All these vegetables 

 grow well in temperate latitude. 



Tobacco pays on the right soil 2000 pounds 

 per acre can be raised. Connecticut tobacco 

 brings twenty to thirty cents a pound, or four 

 to six hundred dollars per acre for a good crop. 

 Some soils in Connecticut raise tobacco equal to 

 Sumatra, which sells here for about $3.50 a 

 pound. It is claimed that in parts of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio Cuban tobacco can be grown. 

 Soil is of such importance in tobacco growing 

 that the Department of Agriculture is making 

 soil maps of the important tobacco sections. 

 Write for them if interested. 



Mushrooms can be grown as a supplement that 

 interferes with nothing else in the winter time. 

 The new method of germ isolation and spore 

 culture has cut out much of the uncertainty. The 

 only things needed now, besides knowledge, to 

 insure success is an even temperature, careful at- 

 tention, plenty of good barnyard manure and 

 commercial sense enough to get your product 

 sold to advantage. An outhouse, cellar, limekiln 



