IRRIGATION IN THE EAST I75 



lars and fifty cents for chemicals, seventeen dollars for 

 labor and fifteen dollars for commission on sales. There 

 were sold one thousand four hundred and seventy head 

 for one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents. 

 Profit on caulifiower, one hundred dollars and seventy- 

 four cents, or nearly five dollars per row. Quoting 

 from Mr. Kilbourne's journal: 



June 24, plowed, harrowed and rolled strawberry 

 ground for cabbage. On the 26th, marked out rmd 

 let the water down the furrows. After the furrows 

 were filled, spread broadcast fifty pounds muriate of 

 potash, one hundred pounds bone black and one hun- 

 dred pounds nitrate, most of the fertilizer falling in 

 the furrows. We then harrowed lightly to mix the 

 fertilizer and partly fill the furrows, then set the plants 

 in the depression left, just covering enough to make 

 them stand up. The plants were set three by two feet, 

 then cultivated. It was the best cabbage I ever grew ; 

 not a single head missing and many of them were too 

 large to go in a sixteen-quart basket. The six rows, 

 one hundred and twenty in each row, were sold for 

 three dollars a hundred. The rest of the plants I set 

 on ground outside the garden that was heavily ma- 

 nured. They did well, but were not as good as those 

 in the garden. I cut all the cabbage on this piece by 

 the first of October and immediately plowed and har- 

 rowed in one hundred pounds of nitrate and sowed 

 round-leaf spinach, which was by November 20 of a 

 good size to winter over. 



The celery plants in the seedbed were large 

 enough by the last week in June to prick out, and we set 

 them on a piece of ground where they were to be 

 planted finally. After plowing a strip ten feet wide 

 and two hundred and forty feet long we spread one 

 hundred pounds of nitrate and one hundred pounds 

 bone black. We harrowed thoroughly. Then with a 



