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amount actually paid out was thirty-three dollars and 

 ninety cents and the crops actually sold were one hun- 

 dred and nineteen dollars and fifty-eight cents. No 

 manures seem to have been used. 



The Henderson bush lima produced at the rate of 

 one hundred and forty bushels per acre in the pod, and 

 cost at rate of thirty-nine dollars and twelve cents per 

 acre. They shelled two and one-fourth quarts to the 

 peck. Planted ^Nlay 8, they were ready to use August 

 5. Garden beets planted April 21 were ready for use 

 June 17 and June 26, according to earliness of location. 

 Yield was at rate of seven hundred bushels per acre. 

 Early cabbage, planted in cold frames April 13, was 

 transplanted May 17, was hoed and cultivated twice, 

 and was first used for table July 17. Variety, Burpee's 

 All Head. Crop at rate of four thousand five hundred 

 and ten per acre, worth one hundred and seventy-one 

 dollars and thirty-eight cents, at cost for seed and labor 

 of twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. Late cabbage 

 was transplanted June 17, was sprayed for cabbage 

 worm September 6 with one ounce insect powder to 

 three gallons water, mixing twenty-four hours before 

 wanted. 



Early Shaker sweet corn, planted ]\Iay 8, was 

 ready July 26 and yielded at the rate of seven thousand 

 one hundred and fifty ears and five and one-half bushels 

 seed per acre, worth forty-two dollars and sixteen dol- 

 lars, respectively, at a cost of sixteen dollars. White 

 Rice popcorn yielded at rate of sixty-six bushels at a 

 cost of fourteen dollars and fifty-five cents. Of sev- 

 eral kinds of pickling cucumbers, Early Frame proved 

 most i)rofitable, being early, productive and easily 

 gathered. Spraying with one ounce sulphur to one 

 gallon water drove away the lice. Thick planting pro- 

 vided plants enough to spare some for the striped 

 beetle, a plan found cheaper than liming or other reme- 



