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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 
