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They should receive the same culture as okra or 

 corn, thorough cultivation and water if the sea- 

 son is unduly dry. At the approach of severe 

 weather the tops should be cut off close to the 

 crown and the plants banked up with coal ashes, 

 which should be removed in the spring before 

 growth begins. 



ARTICHOKE, JERUSALEM 



Though sometimes used as a vegetable and for 

 pickling is especially valuable for feeding stock, 

 especially swine which are allowed to harvest it by 

 rooting it out of the ground. It is claimed that 

 an acre of ground planted to artichoke will keep 

 from twenty to thirty hogs from October to April. 

 They have a special value as a means of clearing 

 a piece of land of undesirable weed growths — 

 like Canada Thistle, quack grass or locust 

 sprouts, as the hogs in rooting for the tubers will 

 destroy the weed roots, thus redeeming a piece 

 of land that may be utilized for garden crops or 

 fruit. 



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