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by the average farmer. There are but 

 few Thanksgivings and Christmases 

 that I do not cut a few heads of New 

 York Lettuce grown in the frames for 

 my (Unner, while other folks are spend- 

 ing picture-show money for theirs. In 

 districts such as the Hood River Valley, 

 where in some parts the growing sea- 

 son is not long, and the average daily 

 and night temperature is not high, a 

 great deal of value for ))lant and crop 

 protection is the small forcing hill, or 

 individual cold frame. There are many 

 st>les of these that can be used, but 

 they all have the same principle and 

 use. Place these at night over your 

 tomato plants, your eggplants, your 

 pepjjer plants, your melon and cucum- 

 ber hills, and your garden will not suc- 

 cumb to the unusual cold nights. Con- 

 siderable use of these is made by gar- 

 deners in the vicinity of The Dalles, 

 for plant ])rotection, as a means of in- 

 creasing the earliness of their crops. 

 It will be necessary also in this district 

 to use added protection in the form of 

 straw mats or dry straw, or old carpet 

 material, in order to keep the cold from 

 penetrating the glass sash. 



The perennial vegetables, such as 

 asparagus and rhubarb, are important 

 in the home garden, because they are 

 early, easily cared for, and permanent. 

 Fifty to seventy-five plants of aspara- 

 gus, and ten to twenty rhubarb plants, 

 will furnish a sufliciency for the aver- 

 age family. 



One of the most widely-eaten vege- 

 tables is head lettuce. It is likewise 

 found but little in the average home 



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garden during the entire sea.son. Let- 

 tuce that is .solid, sweet, and tender, 

 can be grown in most sections of the 

 state, and in many sections nine and 

 ten months out of the year. Success 

 in growing this vegetable depends upon 

 the right selection of varieties, timely 

 applications of water, and i)lenty of 

 manure in the soil. The average farmer 

 can also have a good supply of lettuce 

 grown in the cold frames during the 

 late fall and early winter, and also in 

 the early spring before the outdoor 

 crop begins to head. 



The equipment of four glass sashes 

 in a cold frame, together with the lum- 

 ber of the frame itself, can be paid for 

 by growing one crop of lettuce under 

 these sashes. In a frame 12 feet long 

 and (') feet wide, 144 lettuce i)lants can 

 be planted. These should sell at least 

 at ."lO cents a dozen, which would make 

 a total of Jfti.dO, which would go quite 

 a long ways toward paying for the 

 original cost of the cciuipment. There 

 should be no need for the fruitgrower 

 to buy his Thank.sgiving celei'y, and 

 oftentimes his Christmas celery. He 

 can grow it out of doors, partially 

 blanch it, and when cold weather 

 comes, store it in the barn or shed 

 which is reasonably frost-proof. This 

 is especially possible in districts where 

 the falls are cool and where there is 

 not so much moisture as there is in the 

 western part of Oregon. 



Storage is a feature of vegetable gar- 

 dening that is very important. Various 

 vegetables can be successfully stored 

 foi- winter use, such as cabbage, celery, 

 roots of all kinds, squash, pumpkins, 

 and onions, and these, together with 

 the canned pi'oducts, which are usually 

 IHit up, such as siring beans, tomatoes, 

 asi)ai'agus, sweet corn, etc., should 

 MKike things decidedly easier for the 

 cooks during llie winter time, and fur- 

 nish a more pleasant variet\ for the 

 farmer. 



1 fidly realize the didicullies in vege- 

 table gardening, in endeavoring to con- 



trol insects and diseases. Yet at the 

 same time there are many of these 

 that can be controlled by a discrete use 

 of the right measures at the correct 

 time. It is unnecessary for a gardener 

 to lose a number of his plants from 

 injury by a certain insect, while others 

 are relatively more dillicult to success- 

 fully control. Truck gardeners, as well- 

 as fruitgrowers who are growing vege- 

 tables, can always obtain some very 

 helpful information by writing to the 

 Department of Entomology of the Ore- 

 gon Agricultural College. 



In regard to the fertilization of the 

 home vegetable garden area, I would 

 say that it would pay you to save from 

 your own stock, your horses or cows, 

 enough manure so that you can put on 

 250 pounds per .stpiare rod of garden 

 area. If this is impossible, use 20 

 pounds of lime, or one-half that 

 amount of land plaster, and five pounds 

 of complete connnercial fertilizer to the 

 same area. 



There are many other important fac- 

 tors of successful vegetable g;u(lening 

 that I might emphasize. One of these 

 is the necessity of some regular or sys- 

 tematic time being devoted to the vege- 

 table garden. If this j)art of the farm 

 is given its due care, it will show a 

 greater balance of net receipts for the 

 given amount of area cultivated than 

 almost any other part of the farm 

 which is tilled. 



Space and time forbid m\ going into 

 details to any further extent. I would 

 like, before closing, however, to em- 

 phasize to the fruitgrowers and mem- 

 tiers of the society here present that 

 the Vegetable (iardening Section of the 

 Division of Horticulture of the Oregon 

 .\gricullural College is anxious to serve 

 the fruitgrowers of the state as far as 

 possible by assisting them in the culti- 

 vation of their areas devoted to vege- 

 table gardening. .\ny connnunication 

 1 receive will be very carefully consid- 

 ered and iis much assistance as possible 

 rendered. 



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