Summer Care of the Home Vegetable Garden' 



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The flowering head of cauHflower to be of good quality must be care- 

 fully protected from sunlight; otherwise it will be of dark color and poor 

 flavor. Some varieties are almost self -blanching, but it is nearly always 

 necessary to tie the leaves over the head soon after it begins to form. 

 Some gardeners protect the small heads by covering them with paper. 



AVAILABLE READING COURSE LESSONS FOR THE FARM, 



ARRANGED BY SERIES 



Residents of New York State may register for one or more of the series 

 mentioned below by addressing The Cornell Reading Course for the 

 Farm, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York. 



SERIES 



The soil 74 



42 



so 



Poultry . 



Rural engineering. 

 Farm forestry. . . . 



The horse. 

 Dairying. 



70 



78 



80 



88 



8 



*S9 



12 

 28 



40 

 62 



46 



56 

 16 



32 



54 

 60 

 82 

 86 



LESSONS 



Introduction to the principles of soil fer- 



tiHty 

 Tilth and tillage of the soil 

 Nature, efilects, and maintenance of humus 



in the soil 

 Soil moisture and crop production 

 Land drainage and soil efficiency 

 Incubation 



Feeding young chickens 

 Knots, hitches, and splices 

 Sewage disposal for country homes 

 The improvement of the woodlot 

 Recent New York State Laws giving relief 



from taxation on lands used for forestry 



purposes 

 County, town, and village forests 

 Methods of detemiining the value of timber 



in the farm woodlot 

 Feeding and care of the horse 

 Practical horse-breeding 

 Practical dairy problems 

 Composition of milk and some of its products 

 The dairy herd 

 Farm butter-making 

 Cream separation 

 The production of clean milk 



♦Lesson for the Farm Home. 

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