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Tomatoes. The earlier yon plant your seeds the more 

 money you get for your fruit. We use paper pots — the same 

 ones we have used for three years. With this style of pot 

 you can transplant without disturbing the roots; thus the 

 growing goes right on. We have never had our tomatoes 

 checked a bit. We ship no tomatoes that are not perfectly 

 ripe and sound and every slice can be used. We put them 

 in what is called a four-quart crate. When tomatoes were 

 selling in New York as low as 25 and 15 cents a bushel I 

 didn't know that we could get a right price for ours, but when 

 I went in the city and saw the way the fruit was packed — a 

 few good ones on top and soup in the bottom, I knew we 

 could sell our crates. I left them at a store while I was out 

 looking at the market, and when I returned I found the clerk 

 had sold all I had brought in for $1.50 a crate of less than 

 half a bushel. If I could have furnished them I might have 

 sold a hundred crates a day at that price. 



Potatoes. I buy the best seed I can get, it don't make 

 any difference what the price is. If they were $7.50 a 

 bushel and I couldn't afford a bushel, I would buy a quart and 

 plant those and have enough the next year to do something 

 with. If we give the potato a good chance to grow and not 

 have it buck up against clods of earth, but grow in a seed 

 bed, so they don't have to force their way through the chunks, 

 we will have no trouble in getting good yields of fine pota- 

 toes. You must give the potato ground thorough cultiva- 

 tion ; we use the disc cultivator. We don't have many little 

 ones ; when we do, we use them at home. 



Carrots. We sow them in the double drills; if you use 

 them before they are matured, the flavor will be much more 

 delicate. There is a good market for this vegetable. 



Baskets or Home Hampers. We make an assortment of 

 vegetables, trying to pack 9 kinds in the hamper, for which 

 we get $1.50 delivered. Our customers know they are get- 

 ting fresh vegetables and we have no trouble in getting rid 

 of all we pack. The hamper costs us 14 cents, and the express 

 is 35 cents, netting us one dollar, we figure. We change the 



