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have the frame six inches higher in the back than in front, 
and put bars across every three feet for the sash. In the 
spring of the vear I just put down a bed of manure about nine 
feet long, four feet wide and two feet deep. I set my 
frame on top of that and put my soil in there and let it thaw 
out. 
Mr. Smith: That is exactly the way that Mr. Allen does. 
Mr. Nagel: I never make any hotbeds in the fall. I have 
a level piece of ground which I cover from one and a half to 
two feet deep with manure. Of course, if I make them in Feb- 
ruary, I should use two feet, but in the middle of March 
eighteen inches would be sufficient. A foot will not do. In the 
spring we put the frames on and fill them with manure. We leave 
the sashes on untilit heats. If there are any places where it does 
not heat fast enough we pour in hot water. Then we let it le 
until the temperature gets below 90°. After that you can put 
almost anything in the bed. I think this is the best way to 
make hotbeds. 
Mrs. Crocker: I have used Mr. Nagel’s method a good deal, 
and have found it very successful. 
HUBBARD SQUASH. 
E. M. CHANDLER, MINNEAPOLIS. 
(A Talk.) 
This is something that I am a little newin yet. I have only been 
atit about three years. If you want an outline of my plan, perhaps 
I can give you a little information on it. We prepare our ground along 
in May, and mark it off in squares eight feet each way. We manure our 
squash in the hill, putting about a fork full in each hill, and put our seed 
in about the same time that we plant corn, say about the 25th of May or 
the Ist of June. 
Dr. Frisselle: How deep down in the hill do you put that manure? 
Mr. Chandler: Well, I put it in three or four inches deep and cover it 
with three or four inches of soil and put in the squash seeds in the hill, 
and when they come up thin them out to one and sometimes two. The 
hills are eight feet apart. We have one or two vines for each hill. We culti- 
vate them during the summer and keep the weeds down as well as We Can. 
Our soil is a very sandy soil, that is hardly fit for anything else. 
A Member: How-about the bugs? 
Mr. Chandler: We generally put out so many squash that we don’t fear 
the bugs. We have about twenty acres this year. and we had twenty-five 
