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Asparagus. — Asparagus is well adapted to dry-land culture. A level piece of 
ground, to catch and store all precipitation during the season, and wide spacing, 
from 4 to 5 feet between the rows, to facilitate thorough and frequent horse 
cultivation, have proved to be the best aids to success at the field station. The 
Fig. 5. 
-Cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, squashes, and potatoes in the plat for vine crops and early potatoes 
in the acre garden on July 25, 1924 
Table 4. — Total yield of each vegetable in the acre garden at the Northern Great 
Plains Field Station, Mandan, N. Dak., for each of the years from 1920 to 1924, 
inclusive 
Vegetable and class 
Unit of 
measure 
Total annual yields 
1920 
1921 
1922 
. 1923 
1924 
Beans: 
Shell 
Pounds 
Quarts 
Pounds. __ 
do 
107 
190 
150 
218 
485 
195 
145 
46 
8 
145 
18 
42 
156 
207 
361 
530 
317 
28 

75 
120 
523 
268 
558 
1,087 
1,062 
895 
135 
81 
151 
105 
375 
190 
420 
178 

622 
4 

643 
112 
91 
1,332 
450 
131 
110 
429 
Beets: 
355 
613 
Cabbage: 
Early 
Winter 
Carrots _______ 
__.do 
...do 
...do 
714 
1,186 
290 
Cauliflower: 
Early 
do 
106 
Fall 
Cucumbers __._ 
...do 
do 
92 
150 
Eggplant __;_____.__ _ . 
Fruits. . 
9 
Muskmelons 
...do 
Pounds 
do 
18 
361 
67 
29 
28 
388 
97 
49 
42 
897 
335 
160 
18 
1,195 
Parsnips. 
429 
Peas _ __________ 
Quarts 
Fruits . 
235 
Peppers _.. . _ 
179 
Potatoes _ . __-__ 
Pounds. __ 
...do 
__do 
800 
672 
135 
28 
1,485 
242 
458 
368 
( 2 ) 
652 
75 
6 

500 
354 
( 3 ) 
1,125 
651 
300 
40 
560 
1,400 
954 
600 
1,138 
600 
500 
14 
572 
1,568 
785 
180 
1,068 
Pumpkins 
1,281 
457 
Squash: 
Summer ... . . ■ 
Fruits 
Pounds 
Ears 
Pounds. _. 
-_do__ - 
24 
Winter.. _ __...__ 
900 
Sweet corn _____________ . ._ 
2,500 
Tomatoes. .. . __________■_ 
672 
250 
i Fruits 
Yield good, but the record was lost. 
Yield good, but the crop was stolen. 
