SPINACH 



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There is always a demand for it at canneries, 

 providing you have made arrangements with 

 them beforehand. Last year quite a number 

 of acres were sown, and after it was grown, 

 the canners came and wished to contract 

 it. The first contract was made on the basis 

 of $16 then $18 and some sold at $20 a ton. 

 This is for spinach as cut from the field. 



Harvesting spinach. Several rows are cut and raked 

 together. Crates filled by hand. 



"The quickest way to harvest is to take a 

 cultivator, with which it is possible to cut 

 two rows at once having one blade run 

 under each row. One man will cut as much 

 as two men can rake. About six rows are 

 raked into a windrow. Then it is placed 



