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those who valued quality, eighteen bushels and 

 fourteen 'quarts brought the large sum of forty- 

 three dollars and sixty cents. For field culture, 

 where ground is plenty, and not very rich, the 

 tall kinds, like Dan O'Burk, McLean's Advan- 

 cer, and Champion of England, are doubtless the 

 best. But don't hire your men to pick them by 

 the day. I gave an Irishman twelve shillings 

 last summer to pick about fifty cents' worth of 

 peas. 



He would be little better than a heathen (agri- 

 culturally) who raised no peas for home supply ; 

 but we have strong doubts as to the profitableness 

 of this vegetable for market. I think you can 

 raise more strawberries to the acre than you can 

 peas. You can pick a bushel of the fruit as soon, 

 and the latter will bring from six to ten dollars a 

 bushel, while for the former you often cannot 

 get one dollar. For a small local market it will 



pay well to plant the dwarfs between other 

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