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Show Big 8ales of Seed. The seed plantations around San Jose, Cal.,are said to receive $3,000,-000 $3,000,-000 a year from the sale of seed. The first experiment of the planters In this line were made less than half a dozen years ago. Ono onion patch now covers 3,000 acres, with furrows almost two miles long. A single plot of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, a bed of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce bed 2,100 acres. There are within a radius of eighty miles around San Jose 14,500 acres devoted to raising plants and flowers-for their 'seed alone. |