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as full as they will tie up, and the contents are 

 thrashed in the sacks with a flail. The seed is then 

 sifted from the stalks and taken to the fanning- 

 mill, and after putting it through the mill two or 

 three times, we set the boys to rolling it. For this 

 purpose we have a board two and a half feet long 

 by one foot wide, with thin strips nailed on the 

 sides to keep the seeds from rolling off. A boy sits 

 down on a cloth with a pan of seed by his side, and 

 holds one end of the board in his lap, while the 

 other end rests on the cloth. He puts a handful of 

 seed on the top end of the board and gently shakes 

 it. All of the sound plump seeds run off on to the 

 cloth, while the shriveled seeds, bits of stalk, dirt, 

 weed seeds, etc., remain on the board. A smart 

 Indian boy will clean ten pounds a day, at a cost 

 of 50 cents and his board. Now the seed is sacked 

 in double cotton sacks, holding about ten pounds 

 each, and is ready for market." 



In a subsequent paper the same writer said, in 

 answer to inquiries upon the subject, that the cauli- 

 flower and cabbage readily mixed, but that there 

 was little danger of their doing so in his locality, 

 as the cabbage was nearly out of flower before the 

 cauliflower began to blossom. To make the matter 

 certain, however, boys were sent to every neighbor- 

 ing cabbage patch to clip off all straggling late 

 blossoms that remained. Only one variety of cauli- 

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