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over $1,000 worth of cucumbers. They are 
not difficult to cultivate, pick, crate or 
market, and therefore in proportion to 
the labor expended yield enormous re- 
turns. 
Squashes 
Hubbard squashes do well and-usually 
sell at high prices. We have-known them 
to bring $300 per acre. 
Cabbages, Turnips, Ete. 
Cabbages, turnips, rutabagas, beets, cel- 
ery and asparagus are all profitable, and 
make it possible for a family to live in 
comfort on ten acres of land while the 
young trees are coming into bearing. We 
treat the growth of these crops more fully 
under their appropriate heads, but we 
know because we have seen it tried that 
it is possible both to succeed and to fail, 
and that success or failure depends on the 
labor and the intelligence put into the 
work. We have known a few persons who 
succeeded so well at growing crops be: 
tween the trees that they abandoned the 
orchard idea and turned to the growing 
of vegetables as paying larger profits in 
proportion to the expenditure of money 
and of labor cost, than fruits. 
Small Fruits 
Strawberries, currants, gooseberries, 
raspberries and blackberries are often 
grown between the trees with varying de- 
grees of success. In choosing among 
them, we would say that the gooseberry 
is the least trouble, while the strawberry 
is likely to prove the most profitable. We 
have known strawberries to yield $300 per 
acre, but it is more likely. that the aver- 
age grower will not receive more than 
$150 to $200 per acre. 
Alfalfa 
We have tried setting trees in a field 
of alfalfa by plowing out rows about six 
feet wide in which to set the trees, and 
allowing the alfalfa to grow between the 
rows. We did so on the theory that al- 
falfa is a nitrogen gathering plant and 
fertilizes the land, and that the hay crop 
would pay good returns. If this plan is 
adopted there will be a strip of about 24 
feet of alfalfa provided the trees are set 
30 feet apart. Thus five-sixths of the land 
Fig. 5. 
and watermelons in the rows. 
Combination of Strawberries and Watermelons. 
Strawberries between the rows 
Courtesy of O.-W. R. & N. Co. 
