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salt is beneficial. Asparagus may be grown by planting the seed 

 in hills three feet apart each way, where the roots are to remain; 

 but the usual way is to sow seed in a bed and set out the roots 

 when a year old. Seed may be sown in rows two feet apart dur- 

 ing early spring (January to March) or during October. The 

 growing plants require considerable water, and should be thinned 

 to six inches apart to prevent crowding of the roots. The next 

 season they may be set out in well prepared, heavily manured soil, 

 making the rows four feet apart and setting the plants two to three 

 feet in the row. No stems should be cut until the third stason. 

 The stronger the roots become before cutting is begun, the great- 

 er will be the yield in future years. Each autumn the matured 

 stalks should be cut away and burned, and the soil manured and 

 thoroughly cultivated. 



Varieties. Any variety will thrive, but the old standard 

 variety Conovers Colossal is the one most generally grown here. 

 Palmetto is also an approved variety. 



beans. 



Culture. Beans are not easily grown in our region. The 

 bush varieties are the ones most successfully grown here, and 

 these sometimes fail. They endure neither frost nor the dry heat 

 of summer, and hence have but a short period of growth. They 

 are planted during March and the early part of April and again 

 during August and the early part of September. They may be 

 planted in hills 1 5 to 20 inches apart along the side of furrows 

 through which water has been previously run, or they may be 

 dropped in small furrows that are subsequently filled with a small 

 plow. 



Varieties. One of the easiest varieties to grow is the Pink 

 Bean of the southwest. Of the sorts more popular elsewhere, the 

 Long Yellow Six Weeks gives the best results. The Pima In- 

 dians grow quite successfully on their reservation a small Lima 

 bean of the Sieva type. They plant it during February. 



BEETS. 



Culture. The beet is a vegetable that is quite easily grown 

 in our region, if a few precautions are taken. When once started 



