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Shallow cultivation should be given after rains and about once 
a week in dry weather. 
IRRIGATION 
Irrigation of sprouts is being tried this year for the first time at 
the eastern end by Mr. L. H. Hallock of Orient. About an acre 
of sprouts are being watered by the Skinner system of overhead 
pipes set with tiny nozzles. The runs of pipe are 800 feet 
long and 50 feet apart, supported on pipe columns about 61% 
feet high. A space 25 feet wide on either side of the pipe can 
easily be watered by this arrangement. The plants under irriga- 
tion were set out about August 15, following early carrots. They 
were well watered as soon as set, and have had waterings every 
week since, except when it rained. The water was allowed to run 
about five hours each time, amounting to half an inch. This sort 
of irrigation also has the advantage of knocking the lice off the 
plants. 
HARVESTING 
Harvesting begins as early as the middle of September from the 
plants set in June, but the shipments are light until well into Oc- 
tober. Early sprouts should be picked over two or three times in 
the field, the lowest sprouts being taken each time, otherwise 
these will open out and become yellow, or rot if the weather 
is warm. The first picking must be done when the outer leaves 
of the lowest sprouts begin to turn yellow. In picking, the leaf 
subtending the sprout is broken away, so that when the time comes 
for cutting the plants the early ones will show from several inches 
to a foot of bare stem. As these lower leaves and sprouts are re- 
moved the plant continues to push up and form new leaves at the 
top, and the upper sprouts also fill out better, so that the yield of 
sprouts at the final cutting is about as great as though no picking 
had been done. When a sprout is ready to pick it readily breaks 
away from the stump; otherwise it clings tenaciously. These early 
