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middle of June, so that they will be well up by the time the 
potatoes are dug. Under frequent cultivations they usually 
are ready to begin picking in from 50 to 60 days. They are 
picked at a cost of about 25 cents a bushel and sorted into 
three sizes ; the largest selling for $1.00, the medium at $1.50 
and the very small at $2.00 per bushel. At these rates we 
usually get abcut $140 from an acre, of which $80 is net profit. 
Green cucumbers will bring more than pickled ones when of¬ 
fered side by side. We have grown cucumbers for the pickle 
factories but never made anything at it. The Long Green is 
usually preferred by private buyers and Short Green or Early 
Frame by the factories and dealers, for pickles. 
Egg Plant. —Of the egg plant we have every year grown 
a goodly number, but of the fruit we have never yet marketed 
a specimen. If a potato bug loves a potato vine, he is per¬ 
fectly ravished with the egg plant. Millions, gathering from 
miles around, pay their undying attentions to it. Piaster it 
so thick with paris green that any bug in his cooler moments 
would see only certain death about it, and still on they come. 
My opinion is that the surest w r ay to protect potatoes is to set 
out a sufficient number of egg plants coated with paris green 
anywhere within ten miles of your potato patch. I cannot 
say that my egg plant business of itself has been profitable. 
Horse-radish is a profitable crop. We make cuttings of 
roots one-fourth to one-half inch thick and six inches long, 
and set them in holes made with the crowbar or spade between 
the rows of early cabbages deep enough so that the cultivator 
does not tear them up. As soon as the cabbages are removed 
they have the whole ground, and it being very rich they make 
a large growth. They should always be dug at one year old, 
washed and trimmed, when they bring from seven to ten cents 
per pound, or, if a good crop, about $450 per acre. For a gar- 
• den of twenty acres, one-sixth of an acre is none too much. 
Lettuce near our small cities will never sell enough to pay 
for growing, except the very earliest. Therefore, we sow the 
