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A Member. You didn't give us the price of your asparagus 

 bunches. 



Mr. Garrahan. I was trying to think if we sold anything for 

 less than 20 cents a bunch this year. Yes, we did, — some — I 

 shipped a good deal of it to Scranton, and that averaged, I 

 think, pretty close to $2 a dozen. At one time it went down 

 to $1.50, but in our own local markets we didn't break the price 

 below 20 cents. Yes, the price was good. 



A ]\Ie:mber. Ever do it before for the whole season? 



]Mr. Garrahan. Yes, we've done it before that. The only 

 trouble we have is earlier in the season. If it turns warm early, 

 and that rush of asparagus comes on all at once and the market 

 is stocked with some southern stuff, in combination with ours, 

 that makes trouble. 



A Member. How often do you consider it safe to put cab- 

 bage on the same land? 



Mr. Garrahan. We don't put it in oftener than every three 

 years — not any oftener. 



A Member. Have you had any trouble with the root knot 

 or club foot? 



Mr. Garrahan. Why, not recently; but we have had. 



A IVIember. Is there anything you can do for it? 



Mr. Garrahan. Lime is somewhat of a preventative; that 

 is why we always apply more or less lime. 



A jNIember. What do you follow cabbage with? 



Mr. Garrahan. Sometimes late celery; sometimes late let- 

 tuce. Last year we seeded it down for rye; it depends on the 

 season a good deal. 



A Member. Do you use hydrated lime altogether? 



Mr. Garrahan. Yes. 



A jMember. How often? 



Mr. Garrahan. Oh, only about once in two or three years. 

 I have found it an advantage to use lime on celery. I have 

 known cases where the ground was such that it didn't show any 

 results of acidity on using litmus paper, and yet an application 

 of lime made a big difference on the celery. A neighbor of mine 

 had some celery out this year, and he applied some lime. When 

 he turned at the end of the rows with his lime machine the 



