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ten feet. A sowing on April i gave us greens by 

 the middle of June and stalks a week later. At the 

 end of August, after the crop was past, the roots 

 were pulled out, as their room was more valuable 

 than their company. 



"Lettuce. — Cost of seed, two cents; length of row, 

 ten feet. This gave us more than a hundred plants. 

 As soon as they reached transplantable size, we set 

 out sixty plants along the Lima bean row, leaving 

 forty in the original row. This was rather crowded 

 for a lo-foot row, but as the first heads were gathered 

 while still quite small there was space for the others 

 to spread. Well-developed heads were ready by 

 June 16 from the April 12 sowing. They were so 

 tender that they fell apart in the handling, and the 

 flavor and quality were excellent. 



"Beets. — Cost of seeds, two cents; length of 

 row, twenty feet. Sowed April 12, and less than two 

 months later we were pulling young roots the size 

 of plums. These thinnings were good eating and 

 they left space for the others to spread, as they at- 

 tained full size, during the month following. 



"Corn. — Cost of seed, fifteen cents; length of row, 

 thirty feet, early; seven hills, late. The first plant- 

 ing. May 8, came up so thickly that we transplanted 

 all that could be accommodated on another part 

 of the grounds, and still had a quantity of thinnings 

 to feed to the horse. The original row yielded 

 seventy ears and the transplanted hills about fifty 

 more. The bearing season lasted a month, from the 

 end of July to the end of August. The late corn was 

 sowed July i, where the potatoes had been taken 



