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late cabbage or sowed to cow-peas. Next year we shall 

 change this plan, and set the plants four feet apart each way, 

 with hills of early potatoes between the plants. The pota- 

 toes will be started on sods in the hotbed and transplanted 

 after frost. We have also transplanted strawberries after 

 clearing the land of peas and Crosby sweet corn. Our Glen 

 Mary potted plants were set out this year on October 16. 

 We have transplanted Parker Earle strawberries as late as 

 election day, and picked a fair crop from them the following 

 spring. Of course such culture cannot be advised for gen- 

 eral practice. It suits our condition better than any other, 

 and that is why we follow it. 



Peas. — These pay us reasonably well, and the money for 

 them comes at a convenient time. Our next .spring's crop 

 will be grown on a light, sandy soil, upon which crimson 

 clover is now growing. This clover will be worked under 

 with the Cutaway. We shall use in the drill a home-mixture 

 of potash, chicken manure, cotton-seed meal and basic slag. 

 Last year's varieties were Nott's Excelsior, New Life and 

 Telephone. The first-named variety may be planted closely. 

 We have grown them successfully between the rows of straw- 

 berries. We choose these varieties because they are of ex- 

 cellent quality and sell well in our local market, — a small 

 town, with a limited demand for the best. 



Lima Beans. — Bergen County, N. J., where we live, is 

 the greatest Lima-bean section of the eastern States. Our 

 American farmers seem to be gradually dropping the crop, 

 and it is going very largely into the hands of the Germans. 

 The reason for this seems to be that there is an immense 

 amount of labor involved in tying and picking, which is 

 easily done by children. The Germans are growing a larger 

 child-crop than the Americans, and the few children that the 

 Americans do produce care more for a bicycle than for a 

 bean pole. One can often see little tots in the Lima- bean field 

 climbing on chairs and stools in order to tie the upper vines. 

 We grow only the bush variety, either Kumyle or Dreer. 

 Earliness counts greatly in Lima-beau culture. The very 

 first may bring six dollars a bag, while later in the season 

 the price may fall to seventy-five cents. My opinion is, from 

 what I have learned from others, that the bush Lima may be 



