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on cloths, as seed sheds easily. Seed should not be 
threshed until it is thoroughly dry; it may be done 
with a flail or in the machine. Clean in a fan mill 
and store in sacks. 
To Save for Private Use.—Select the best-looking 
plants, mark them by driving a stake alongside and 
allow to run to seed. Spread a cloth under plants as 
seeds ripen, and as the seed successively matures, shake 
plants repeatedly. 
Market.—Handled by all seedsmen, but is usually 
imported, comparatively little seed being produced in 
America, Average yield in a favorable season is up- 
wards of 1,000 pounds per acre, at price to the grower 
of about ten cents per pound. 
CRESS. 
This is a quick-growing annual, and seed-crop is 
easily raised. Apply same directions as given for corn 
salad; harvesting, threshing, and cleaning are likewise 
similar as for that variety. 
Demand for seed is quite large, being sold by all seed 
dealers; it is partly imported and partly produced here. 
Yield and prices are about the same as for corn salad. 
CUCUMBER. 
In growing a seed-crop of cucumber, care must be 
exercised to avoid mixture of varieties. No two kinds 
should be planted near each other, but they must be 
kept widely separated, at least forty rods apart. If 
Kaffir corn is planted between, distance may be short- 
ened to twenty rods, but not less. Cucumber also 
mixes with Vegetable peach, West India gherkin, Snake 
cucumber, and pomegranate. Care must be used to 
destroy any stray plant that may appear within mixing 
distance. 
