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CROPS 



Bay, Wis., as follows: — Assume that you have 

 first-class land worth $200 per acre : 



Interest and taxes per year will cost, say . . $15.00 



Forty loads manure at $1.00 per load 40.00 



Plowing and fitting the ground 3.00 



10,000 plants at $4.00 per thousand 40.00 



Setting and watering 5.00 



After-cultivation 10.00 



Harvesting and marketing 50.00 



Total $163.00 



8000 heads sold at $3.50 per hundred 280.00 



Net profit $117.00 



If you get only 8000 plants out of 10,000 set, 

 it is a little below the average return, and as 

 the market price is estimated at only 3i cents 

 per head, there is no trace of exaggeration in 

 these figures. The estimate was made ten years 

 ago. 



A crop of cabbages can be grown and har- 

 vested in 100 to 110 days, which makes possible 

 two crops from the same piece of ground in the 

 one season. There are two ways of planting 

 the first crop. One is to use a good rich seed- 

 bed and sow the seed in November, the favorite 

 variety being the Jersey Wakefield. When 

 the plants are three or four inches high, trans- 

 plant them to cold-frames in a protected spot 

 and let them winter there. In the spring they 



