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and thin them, so as to leave them from two to four inches 

 apart. My crop this year was one hundred and seventy-five 

 baskets, weighing fifty pounds per basket. 



Expenses. — Cost of seed, 75 cents ; cost of manure, $6 ; 

 ploughing, ^1; weeding and thinning, $5; harvesting, $4. 

 Total, $16 75. 



AsHBY, Jan. I, 1852. 



