82 MUCK CROPS 



The tape is inexpensive, and it certainly 

 adds to the appearance of the bunch. The 

 bunches should be 9 to 9% inches long, and 

 the average weight of a small bunch is i 

 pound, large sized bunch 2, to 2% pounds. 

 During warm growing weather, it will be 

 necessary to look over the bed every other 

 day and sometimes each day, in order to 

 catch the shoots before they become too long 

 for marketing. Some growers remove 

 shoots Saturday afternoon, in order to avoid 

 cutting on Sunday. The shoots are then 

 washed and bunched and stood in shallow 

 trays, butts down, in about a half inch of 

 water. This is a good method to keep over 

 asparagus, even for a few hours. 



Yields, Costs and Returns. From 8,000 

 to 10,000 pounds of grass should be cut from 

 an acre of well grown asparagus on muck. 

 A fair price for the "grass" is 5 to 8 cents a 

 pound. Some men average 10 cents. It 

 will cost from $75.00 to $125.00 dollars to 

 plant an acre of asparagus and about $150.00 

 dollars an acre a year to handle the crop. It 

 is one of the most profitable crops on muck 

 if the water conditions 'of the soil are cor- 

 rect. 



