. Trial Grounds.—Twenty-eight of White Spine Cucumber, distinct samples purchased from ten Seed Merchants, .uU claiming to sell strains better than their neiglibors. Two rows or fifty plants to each sample—the tests later on showing many inconsistencies or variations in merit. We know something about the merits of different brands of White Spines. Cucumber. Four Ounces of Seed to loo Yards of Row. Three Pounds to the Acre. Period of Maturity 40 to 60 Days from Sowing, According to Variety and Season of the Year. A good crop cannot be grown on thin soil. For early use plant in hills 4x4
. Trial Grounds.—Twenty-eight of White Spine Cucumber, distinct samples purchased from ten Seed Merchants, .uU claiming to sell strains better than their neiglibors. Two rows or fifty plants to each sample—the tests later on showing many inconsistencies or variations in merit. We know something about the merits of different brands of White Spines. Cucumber. Four Ounces of Seed to loo Yards of Row. Three Pounds to the Acre. Period of Maturity 40 to 60 Days from Sowing, According to Variety and Season of the Year. A good crop cannot be grown on thin soil. For early use plant in hills 4x4 feet, on a warm border, when the Cherry is iri bloom, and for a succession sow in drills at 5 feet, when the Apple is in bloom. For pickles plant middle of Summer. In Florida and other Southern States, a fair average production per acre of slicing Cucumbers is 200 crates, 8 -x 14 x 20 in<!hes. Some growers claim average crops of 400 and 500—even 800 crates have been recorded—but these huge yields are only occasionally heard of. A good crop of Cucumbers, when gathered of pickling size, produces from 100 to 175 bushels to the acre. A bushel contains about 200 pickles. Some cultivators have claimed to produce over 100,000 pickles to the acre. The r)ickies should be slipped from the vine by the thumb and finger without raising or disturbing the vine. The pickle houses generally pay the farmers 40 to 50 cents per bushel; they in turn sell them at from 20 to 30 cents per hundred. Pieldes properly prepared will- keep five or six years. The method of salting pickles as pursued in New Jersey 5s as follows: To a cask of 120 gallons' capacity, take 4 qiiarts of salt and mix in 2 gallons of water. Place the solution in ilie bottom of the cask and put in the green r)ickles after washing. To each 2 of pickles put into the cask add 4 fju-n'ts of salt, and continue until cask is full. Place the head-of the cask, with edges trimmed off to permit of a rise and fall, on the t
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