AMERICAN-GROWN PAPRIKA. 
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a 5-acre tract in which the seed was planted directly in the field, 
yielded 4,800 pounds, an average of 960 pounds per acre. Plat No. 3, 
occupying 3 acres, showed a very poor stand, the plants growing in 
the seed bed being transplanted to the field in June. As a result of 
late transplanting a large proportion of the plants succumbed. A 
yield of only 1,504 pounds was obtained, averaging 501 pounds of 
dried pods to the acre. The total yield of the whole year's planting 
of 18 acres was 20,273 pounds of dry pods, an average of about 1,126 
pounds per acre. This land would have produced under ordinary 
circumstances about 
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FINANCIAL RETURNS. 
After a small quan- 
tity needed for lab- 
oratory work at 
Washington had 
been taken out, the 
peppers grown in 
these experiments 
were put on the mar- 
ket. Samples were 
taken by one or the 
other of the writers 
to the chief dealers 
in dried peppers and 
placed in direct com- 
petition with red 
peppers imported 
whole or ground for 
use in the American 
market. At first, largely on account of the novelty of the article, 
buyers were somewhat slow to purchase. Others were in the habit 
of buying peppers already powdered and did not care to buy pods. 
The first two crops were picked with the stems attached to the 
pods in imitation of the imported article. When it was found that 
the presence of the stems was an objectionable feature, the peppers 
were picked without stems, eliminating one factory process for the 
purchaser. This was found to help the sale of the pods, and although 
the weight of the crop was somewhat reduced it was deemed best to 
meet the manufacturers' wishes. A noticeable increase in the cost of 
picking was also charged to this innovation, but it appears probable 
that the attempt to satisfy the buyer in this particular was a most 
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Fig. 11. — Plan of floor of a paprika curing barn, show- 
ing on the right side the arrangement of the timber 
supports and on the left the crates in position. 
