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half. After the seed is taken out of the solution it should be spread and dried ; 

 then it is ready for cutting and planting. 



This treatment not only makes the crop more salable but also increases the 

 yield. 



If it is desired to soak more than twelve bushels of potatoes in the sixteen 

 gallons, it will be necessary, after the twelve bushels have been treated, to add 

 three-quarters of an ounce of corrosive sublimate dissolved in enough water to 

 restore the quantity to sixteen gallons, in order to maintain the solution at the 

 proper strength. 



Corrosive sublimate is cheap, worth about one dollar per pound. The 

 treatment should not cost for material more than two cents per bushel of seed. 

 It is also a powerful poison. The liquid remaining after soakmg the seed should 

 be poured out where it cannot soak into wells or streams, or in any way get into 

 the food or drink of men or animals. 



Toronto. D. W. Beadle. 



To Grow Squashes. — Squashes must have a warm soil which should 

 rather incline to a stiff loam. High meadows grow^luxuriant vines and large-sized 

 squashes, but the quality is inferior, and they are extremely poor keepers. 

 Squashes like all other garden truck must be supplied with large amounts of 

 plant food. A heavy manuring Fhould be thoroughly incorporated into the soil 

 at the time of plowing. The soil should then be thoroughly hardened and hills 

 struck out not less than 8 ft. apart, and for the stronger growing varieties 10 ft. 

 is none too far. From 500 to 700 lbs. of phosphates per acre should be scat- 

 tered around the hills and mixed in the soil. In planting the best plan is to 

 drop eight or ten seeds to a hill. When all are germinated these may be thinned 

 out to three or four. After the second hoeing from 500 to 600 lbs. more of 

 phosphate should be scattered between the rows, thus providing abundant food 

 during the growing season. Hills struck out in regular rows may be cultivated 

 both ways and much hand hoeing saved. Hilling squashes is now looked upon 

 as being an old-fashioned style of cultivation, and level culture is the mode now 

 generally practiced. 



How to Select for Seed.— Every tomato grower should select for seed 

 those tomatoes that have the particular qualities that he desires. The prevailing 

 opinion that some kinds of tomatoes are more resisting to disease than others 

 has a foundation in fact. In selecting the tomatoes they should be taken from 

 healthy, thrifty plants that have borne a good crop of fruit in the proper season. 

 The different test show that the selecting of the first ripe fruit does not tend to 

 increase the earhness of the progeny. Let it be stated again that the plant in 

 its general looks and form of fruit has more influence over the future crop than 

 the shape, form, etc., of the individual fruit. 



