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cellar later, depending upon when the potatoes are sold. Sorting is 

 always done just before the potatoes are marketed. They are hauled 

 and sold in the sacks. 



More man labor and less horse labor are required in marketing an 

 acre of potatoes than in marketing an acre of beets. 



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Fig. 37.— Thrashing cantaloui 



Beets and cantaloupes are the only crops grown that must be 

 marketed as soon as harvested. The other crops are marketed at a 

 time when the field work is less pressing. 



COST OF PRODUCTION. 



As has been indicated, the prices of materials and the wages for 

 labor were abnormal in 1917. These are factors which may vary 



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Fig. 38.— Cleaning and drying cantaloupe seed. 



appreciably from year to year. Such items as the number of hours 

 of labor, pounds of seed, tons of manure, and pounds of twine remain 

 fairly constant. 



