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The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



Approximate Averages of Yield, Cost of Production, and 

 Gross Returns per Acre of various Vegetable Crops. 



These average yields are calculated from crops grown with good 

 ordinary cultivation, under suitable conditions, in a normal season ; 

 the cost of producing the crop includes, in addition to all expenses 

 of cultivation, such items as the value of plants where these are set 

 out, and gathering, bunching, washing, or packing, but not carting to 

 rail or market; the gross returns are subject to deductions for 

 carriage and salesmen's commissions. 



