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Cucumbers a Paying Crop. 2
On the same subject a correspondent of the Portland (Me. ) Transcript
" In my opinion there is nothing that a farmer can realize so much money from as he can from raising cucumbers. If they are pickled the right size and well preserved in strong salt pickle, there is always a market for them. Some farmers have already commenced raising cucumbers for the picklers, and are well pleased with the undertaking. The average crop for 1 acre of ground is about 50 barrels, which will bring about $5 a barrel at the factories. Perhaps it will be well to state to the farmers of Maine that on account of the scarcity of cucumbers here hundreds of thousands of dollars go out of this state annually for pickles. Even in Massachusetts and New York the supply, does not
meet the demand tod they are compelled to go west for their pickles. This state is well adapted to the growing of cucumbers, and they are preferable to those raised in warmer climates. "
Remarks. —Although cucumbers are a paying crop near the cities, yet it is not expected that the general farmer throughout the country would find it so, unless he can make previous arrangements with some of the city dealers, or factories which put up pickles, to buy what he may raise, put up in brine, or salt pickle as above called, which may then prove profitable, after a little experience at first, in a small way. See also the profitableness of onion, culture.
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