Mustard

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Mustard

A small pungent salad, used with cress. Mustard seed is also used for flavoring pickles, pepper sauce, etc.

Mustard is a one season' s crop and easy to raise. Sow seed in early spring, in drills two feet apart, thinning to eight inches in the row. Rogue carefully, pulling out all plants which are impure; keep the crop free from weeds. Harvest, thresh and clean after the manner as described for kale or borecole, to which refer.

Sold by seed-dealers generally, the greatest demand being from the Southern States. The most of the seed used is grown in the South, the remainder in California.

In a favorable season a yield of seed is from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds per acre; at prices to the grower, for garden varieties, of twelve to fifteen cents per pound.

See Growing mustard