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Cucumbers a Paying Crop.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman tells us how he makes cucumbers a paying crop. He says:
"I find cucumbers a paying crop when grown for pickles, and sold either before or after salting—price per hundered the same in either case. I plow as deep as 2 horses can pull the plow, then mark one way 4 feet apart, letting the plow run as deep as the ground was plowed. I then put a large shovelful of good barnyard manure where each hill is Wanted, say 4 feet apart, and then thoroughly mix with the soil, making the hills about 2 inches higher than the general surface of the ground. I plant about the middle of June.
" As soon as the plants get large enough to be out of the way of the striped bug, I thin out to 4 plants to each hill. I cultivate them frequently, and hand-hoe them 2 or 3 times before the vines commence to run. In this vicinity the price ranges from 50 cents to $1 per hundred, and the product of an acre sells from $400 to $800. "
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