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amply repay the extra expense of transplanting. But, 

 if for any reason, there is much delay in getting the 

 hotbed started, I would give it up and put the seed into 

 the open ground as early as possible, using plenty of 

 good seed to get a full stand. 



The cost of transplanting I have found to be 

 about fifty dollars per acre, that is one man and five 

 boys at three dollars and fifty cents per day ought to 



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pull and transplant twelve thousand sets a day. Labor 

 is of course variable and experts might do more, but 

 with common labor one picking up two thousand sets 

 is a fair day's work. Hence, to repay for transplanting 

 one must get one hundred bushels extra per acre, and 

 this can only be done by using the big varieties and 

 with the six weeks of extra growth. With both these 

 points I think the crop ought to be doubled and yield 



