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the plants feed. It appears to me this is the secret of 

 success. 



Much depends upon how asparagus is put up for 

 the market, making it look attractive, in nice, clean, 

 new crates and neatly prepared bunches, and the stalk.'- 

 must be large, tender, and of good flavor. Grass from 

 a strong bed grown in twenty-four hours is much more 

 tender and better in every way than grass grown in 

 fortj^-eight hours from a poor bed. We are compelled 

 to cut every twenty -four hours, or the asparagus would 

 waste, and the gathering is accomplished in about three 

 and one-half hours each day, early in the morning. 



JOEIv BORTON. 

 Salem County, N. J. 



ASPARAGUS IN THE SOUTH 



There is no crop grown by the Southern trucker 

 that has paid better than asparagus year after year. 

 With many of the other truck crops sent North the 

 growers have to contend with a host of planters 

 who rush in at times to plant certain crops like 

 early potatoes, peas, and beans, and whose inferior 

 crops often glut the market and make the season 

 unprofitable all around. These men drop out after 

 a season that their particular venture did not pay, and 

 the regular truckers, being well aware that they would 

 do so, always redouble their efforts the year after a 

 bad season with any particular crop, knowing from 

 experience that then it would be certain to be profit- 

 able. 



But the asparagus crop is one into which the tem- 



