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ICO WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Squashes. —Of squashes, we grow a lew Early Crooknecks 
in the same manner and at the same profit as early cucumbers. 
Of marrow squash, we usually find sales for one-half acre, and 
of Hubbard’s, two to four acres; grown in the same manner as 
melons, and at about the same profit and expense. 
Early Tomatoes we grow in limited quantity, but find 
sales slow until the price falls to a dollar a bushel, when we 
sell off rapidly the products of about two acres, our main crop 
—about three hundred bushels of good fruit. Our plants are 
grown in hot beds, twice or thrice transplanted in the bed to 
make them stocky, and from the middle of May till the mid¬ 
dle of June set out in clear ground, or between potato hills, as 
described under that head. They have always returned us 
$100 per acre net, and one year as high as $300. 
In this way all our land, except that occupied by asparagus, 
carrots, parsnips, and a few early tomatoes, is double cropped, 
so that from 20 acres of land we get 40 acres of crops, and the 
whole value of our manure. Not only is the crop doubled, 
but the land is kept cleaner and in better tilth. But to accom¬ 
plish this are needed manure without stint, a lively action of 
the elbow joint, and that every crop be promptly “on time.” 
We are so well satisfied with this system that had we twice as 
much land we should still double crop and put our surplus to 
some other use. With proper care, under this course, garden¬ 
ing cannot help but pay, 'provided the 4 crops are marketed well, 
and to this point—the keystone of the whole business upon 
which all else depends—we will now give our attention. 
Marketing. —When we entered upon gardening we intend¬ 
ed to wholesale all our crops to the dealers. Fora few weeks, 
while fresh early vegetables were still scarce, all went “ merry 
as a marriage bell,’’ but as soon as our main crops began to 
come in, so did everybody else’s, and not only did the prices 
go below a living profit, but dealers who before were glad to 
pay any price, would not take them at the lowest rates,— 
“some farmer had brought in a lot and would take his pay in 
trade, or a friend had spoken for his patronage, etc., etc.” Chi- 
