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It is also grown in the summer as an early crop, sown the same way 

 as is done in the fall, about the middle of April, when it comes in 

 before cabbages or other greens, about the end of May. The spring 

 crop is not usually so profitable as the winter crop, but there is hardly 

 anything that requires so little labor and produces so much weight. 

 The kinds now in use are the Savoy Leaved and the Round Leaved. 

 The quantity of seed used is from ten to twelve pounds per acre. 

 Spinach is now grown in Norfolk, Va., and other Southern localities, 

 for Northern markets, bringing about $300 or $400 per acre, or twice 

 as much as that grown in the North. 



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Squashes are of luxuriant and vigorous growth, and, although they 

 will grow rapidly in almost any soil, they will repay generous treat- 

 ment. Like all vegetables of this class, it is useless to sow until 

 the weather has become settled and warm, say the 15th of May. 



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Light soils are best suited to its growth, and it is most economical of 

 manure to prepare the hills for the seed in the ordinary manner by 

 incorporating two or three shovelfuls with the soil in each hill. For 

 what is known as the Bush varieties, a distance of three or four feet 

 each way is required, and for running sorts from six to eight feet. 

 Eight to ten seeds should be sown in each hill, thinning out, after 

 they have attained their rough leaves, to three or four of the strongest 

 plants. When only a limited quantity of this vegetable is wanted, as 

 will be understood by most farmers, they can be grown in the hills 

 of corn, where they will mature without interfering with the latter 

 crop, although I myself do not like this system of feeding two crops 

 on the land at the same time, believing that it will always be better 

 to allot the land for each particular crop, as I think the saving of 

 labor and better yield more than compensate for the extra land and 

 manure. The favorite kinds for summer use, of the bush varieties, 



