SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



agus, while the strippings can be used as spinach. 

 When cut it should be cut close to the ground, 

 allowing new growth to spring up. 



In marketing beets, the pricked crop and early- 

 sown crop are nearly always bunched. 



They are pulled when they reach the circum- 

 ference of a silver dollar and tied in bunches of 

 four. Eighteen to twenty-five bunches are put 

 in a bushel box, but twenty is the best number, 

 as they are sold by the bunch. These bunches 

 bring from 5 cents to 2J cents per bunch according 

 to the earliness or lateness of the season. 



At this price a fair crop would yield $400 to 

 $500 per acre. 



Late beets are always sold by the bushel, and 

 a fair yield per acre would be 300 bushels, which 

 should bring upward of $150. 



The Crosby Egyptian Beet is often used as a 

 second crop following cabbage, peas, beans or 

 spinach, or some other early crop that will be out 

 of the way by the middle of July. 



For this late sowing, six pounds of seed to the 

 acre is sufficient, but for the early spring crop at 

 least eight pounds should be used. 



BORECOLE, or KALE (Brassica oleracea acephala) 

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