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over $1,000 worth of cucumbers. They are 

 not difficult to cultivate, pick, crate or 

 market, and therefore in proportion to 

 the labor expended yield enormous re- 

 turns. 



Squashes 

 Hubbard squashes do well and usually 

 sell at high prices. We have known them 

 to bring $300 per acre. 



Cabbages, Turnips, Etc. 



Cabbages, turnips, rutabagas, beets, cel- 

 ery and asparagus are all profitable, and 

 make It possible for a family to live in 

 comfort on ten acres of land while the 

 young trees are coming into bearing. We 

 treat the growth of these crops more fully 

 under their appropriate heads, but we 

 know because we have seen it tried that 

 it is possible both to succeed and to fail, 

 and that success or failure depends on the 

 labor and the intelligence put into the 

 ■work. We have known a few persons who 

 succeeded so well at growing crops be 

 tween the trees that they abandoned the 

 orchard idea and turned to the growing 

 of vegetables as paying larger profits in 



proportion to the expenditure of money 

 and of labor cost, than fruits. 



Small Fruits 



Strawberries, currants, gooseberries, 

 raspberries and blackberries are often 

 grown between the trees with varying de- 

 grees of success. In choosing among 

 them, we would say that the gooseberry 

 is the least trouble, while the strawberry 

 is likely to prove the most profitable. We 

 have known strawberries to yield $300 per 

 acre, but it is more likely that the aver- 

 age grower will not receive more than 

 $150 to $200 per acre. 



.\Ifalfa 



We have tried setting trees in a field 

 of alfalfa by plowing out rows about six 

 feet wide in which to set the trees, and 

 allowing the alfalfa to grow between the 

 rows. We did so on the theory that al- 

 falfa is a nitrogen gathering plant and 

 fertilizes the land, and that the hay crop 

 would pay good returns. If this plan is 

 adopted there will be a strip of about 24 

 feet of alfalfa provided the trees are set 

 30 feet apart. Thus five-sixths of the land 



Fig. 5. Combination of Strawberries and Watermelons, 

 and watermelons in the rows. 



Strawberries between the rows 



Courtesu of O.W. R. d N. Co. 



