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soil enough to cover the seed, using- the horse hoe, then 

 strew fertihzer in the furrow and fill up even with the 

 horse hoe. Go over the piece, if wet, with brush, har- 

 row if very dry; use a roller or smoother, loaded, to 

 firm down the earth. This piece was manured at the 

 rate of six cords per acre plowed in. I used fertilizer 

 at the rate of about one thousand two hundred pounds 

 per acre. 



Early cabbage, nine and one-half square rods, set 

 out May i, and given a handful of fertilizer, with 

 another handful hoed in later, yielded twenty barrels. 

 Income, twenty-five dollars and sixty cents ; cost, six- 

 teen dollars and seventy-five cents ; net, eight dollars 

 and eighty-five cents. Seventeen square rods of early 

 peas produced about fifty bushels at a cost of twenty- 

 eight dollars and seventy-eight cents and selling for 

 fifty dollars and seventy-five cents. 



About one-sixth acre was planted to Mohawk, 

 Golden Eye Wax, Goddard and Imperial Horticultural 

 beans, the first planting of Mohawk April 26. They 

 were cultivated three times and hoed once. Shell beans 

 were more profitable than string. Horticultural were 

 five days earlier than other shell beans. The whole 

 crop, forty-eight bushels, brought forty-nine dollars 

 and eight cents at cost of twenty-nine dollars and 

 forty-five cents. Profit, nineteen dollars and sixty- 

 three cents. 



Cabbages, one-ninth acre, with six dollars worth 

 manure and two dollars worth fertilizer, were set May 

 5, cultivated four times and hoed three times and gave 

 fifty-four barrels and an income of sixty-one dollars 

 and forty-two cents at cost of twenty-eight dollars and 

 ninety-five cents. Net, thirty-two dollars and forty- 

 seven cents. Red cabbage proved most profitable and 

 Savoy least profitable. A similar area of cauliflower 

 brought fifty-one dollars and seven cents at cost of 



