CUCUMBERS 
O. R. Wurtz, Iox1a, Ontario Country, N. Y. 
Farmers’ Institute Lecturer 
EXTENT OF THE INDUSTRY 
The cucumber crop is of greater importance than is generally 
believed. Cucumbers are grown over a very large range of terri- 
tory, thriving over the entire country. They are grown perhaps 
more largely for pickling than for any other purpose, but many 
hundreds of thousands of bushels are grown in the United States 
for table use ; these are of a size ranging from 114 to 21% inches in 
Fie. 440.—F1eLp or CucuMBERS ON FARM oF WHITE Farm Co.; YIELD, 1914, 
600 BuSHELS PER ACRE 
diameter, and are used for slicing. The over-sized ones are also 
in demand for frying in seasons when egg plant is scarce. 
In New York State there are a number of large producing 
sections where both pickles and slicers are grown. On Long 
Island the industry is carried on very extensively, Shelter 
Island ‘‘ cukes” being well known on the New York market. In 
the regions of Orchard Park and Tonia, in the western part of 
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