Chance for Big Profits in Novelties 



With a keen market demand for vegetables and fruit, 

 farmers have a chance to secure far larger profits than 

 they can gain from grain growing or dairying. 



Mixed agriculture is the need of the times, with smaller 

 farms and better cultivation. There should be the great- 

 est possible range of production when markets are easily 

 reached. Farmers and their sons and daughters should 

 aim to produce novelties, or at least articles which are 

 not commonly understood by landowners, and for which 

 good prices are paid. 



A few gardeners make a large profit from salsify, some- 

 times called vegetable oyster. This is one of the 

 neglected products for which there is a quick sale. Many 

 prefer it to the oyster, whose flavor it has a hint of, with 

 all the disagreeable features of the bivalve flavor left out. 



It can be cooked in many ways. As a soup, served with 

 bread or crackers, it is delicious. Fried, either by itself 

 or in a batter, it is quite as appetizing as the real oyster 

 when cooked in that way. 



Boiled, sliced lengthwise when tender, and fried in but- 

 ter, like the parsnip, it soon becomes a favorite. 



Especially is salsify a valuable addition to our some- 

 what limited list of winter vegetables, because it can be 

 dug in the fall and stored in the cellar, or it can be left 

 in the ground over winter and dug in the spring, when 

 it will be found deliciously fresh and of fine flavor. 



The culture of this plant is of the simplest. It likes a 

 rich garden loam, made mellow to the depth of a foot and 

 a half. Sow it in rows for convenience in cultivating, 



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