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home use. The pickle factories, as a rule, however, pre- 

 fer the White Spine. In this neighborhood, they pay 

 from one dollar to one dollar and a half per thousand for 

 the cucumbers, according to the size; a barrel of small 

 ones contains about five thousand, for which they pay 

 five dollars. Of the larger size, a barrel holds from one 

 thousand two hundred to one thousand six hundred, 

 for which they pay from one dollar and eighty cents to 

 two dollars and forty cents per barrel. Some of my 

 neighbors grow cucumbers for pickles on low, mucky 

 soil, which is usually too wet to plow before the middle 

 of June. They sometimes have good crops when they 

 plant as late as the middle of July. It would, of course, 

 be better to drain the land and plant earlier. 



EGG PLANT. 



Egg Plant, in this section, needs to be started in the 

 hot-bed or in a box in the house, and, as the plants re- 



Fig. 7. NEW YOKE IMPBOVBD PURPLE EGO PLANT. 



quire a warm soil when set out in the garden, the seeds 

 should not be sown in the house or hot-bed until the first 

 or second week in April. Select a warm, sunny spot in 



