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quality of his crop. He has done so well at 

 this, that the Pennsylvania State Agricultural 

 Department has issued a bulletin setting forth 

 in detail Mr. Sober's method of chestnut culture. 

 If you are interested you can get the bulletin 

 by writing to Harrisburg, Pa., for it. 



Mushrooms offer a pretty good opportunity 

 to make money, if careful attention is given to 

 detail, but they are still mighty uncertain 

 wild things. It is impossible to give the details 

 of cultivation of specialties within the limits of 

 a book, but if you apply to the Department of 

 Agriculture you can get much information. 



The Department publishes three bulletins 

 which cover the subject: — Cultivation of Mush- 

 rooms, No. 204; Food Use of Mushrooms, No. 

 279; and Growing Mushrooms for Home Use, 

 No. a233. Some mushroom farmers near Wawa, 

 Delaware, according to a report in the Phila- 

 delphia North American, are clearing from $2000 

 to $3000 a year from four or five acres. 



Asparagus, celery and many other garden 

 crops lend themselves readily to special cultiva- 

 tion and yield a good profit. So also do onions 

 and even potatoes. One man at least claimed 

 to have produced as many as 3000 bushels of 

 potatoes from one acre in one year. He pub- 

 lished a pamphlet setting out his method, but 



