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price than that which comes 

 in late in the season. There- 

 fore every advantage from 

 location, character of soil 

 and treatment, must be tak- 

 en into consideration by 

 those who cultivate for 

 profit. 



When the plants are set 

 so that they have about nine 

 inches of covering at the 

 end of the third year from 

 the time of planting, the 

 crowns will be within seven 

 inches of the surface. At 

 this depth the beds may be 

 ploughed with a one-horse 

 plough in the Spring, and 

 the spaces between the rows 

 kept clean by a cultivator 

 during the rest of the sea- 

 son. In garden-culture the 

 " crowns " need only be cov- 

 ered four or five inches. 

 This will save considerable 

 in the labor of working an 

 Asparagus-bed over the old 

 method of diggingthe whole 

 surface every Spring, and 

 doing most of the work 

 with the hand-hoe during 

 the Summer. 



conover's colobsax. 



