110 MUCK CROPS 



rounded with excelsior, thereby checking 

 any "play" or injury in carriage. 



Yields, Costs and Returns. The yields 

 are variable, being sometimes very low. 

 A good average crop would be 7,000 to 

 10,000 heads per acre. Where sold to the 

 stores or market, the price received is from 4 

 to 25 cents a head. In larger amounts 60 to 

 85 cents a dozen is a fair average. Returns 

 of less than. $100.00 have been received and 

 as large as $1,000 an acre, the gross receipts 

 varying as much as the yield. 



A grower on muck soil in western New 

 York says: "When the first of our cauli- 

 flower matured, the heads were very large, 

 and sample crates sent us from Buffalo for 

 shipping cauliflower were found to be so we 

 could not get our cauliflower in them. So I 

 made a few crates especially 'for the purpose. 

 They were quite long, and would just hold 

 a half dozen heads. Those sold in the Buf- 

 falo market for $1.50 a crate. But the mar- 

 ket soon went right down." 



An average price gross return of $400.00 

 to $500.00 an acre would be very good. Some 

 growers are satisfied with $200.00 to $250.00 

 an acre. 



