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a tank that will hold four barrels^ and shall try this 

 more extensively next summer. The cucumbers were 

 large when cut, weighing- on an average ten pounds to 

 the dozen. Sales from the twelve hills, eight hundred 

 and thirty-five at from one to four cents each, fourteen 

 dollars and twenty-seven cents. 



Early Potatoes. — The ground was plowed deep 

 with a heavy team, thoroughly harrowed and marked 

 with a horse marker in rows three feet apart. It was 

 then furrowed out with cultivator with double mold- 

 board plow attachment, going four times in each row 

 and making furrows seven inches deep and fifteen 

 inches wide. The soil was all dry, light and warm by 

 the time we were ready to cover the seed. We then 

 scattered finely pulverized hen manure in the rows. 

 As we were short of seed we planted whole small pota- 

 toes, dropping them on the manure in the furrow, one 

 potato in a place, about sixteen inches apart. 



We put the side hillers on the cultivator and cov- 

 ered the potatoes by running between the rows. After 

 covering we rolled them with the garden roller, run- 

 ning it on top of the rows. In seventeen days they were 

 all up so we could see the rows. We then went over the 

 piece with a straight, square steel-tooth harrow closed 

 to three feet, and also cultivated between the rows with 

 the cultivator with the narrow teeth. On June 14 we 

 hilled them, using the hillers on the cultivator, and 

 although we had not used hand hoes, not a weed was 

 to be seen and there was not a missing hill. 



Money in Berries. — Two men went ahead of the 

 horse and cultivator with common hand hay rakes 

 and raked the straw from between the rows up on the 

 rows, working one row at a time. We then went twice 

 through each row with cultivator, small teeth on, set 

 to run deep. This loosened up the soil between the 

 rows. The straw was then raked back into the rows 



