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Market all the vegetables on hand that will bring a fair price, 

 unless wanted for some special purpose or at an assured price. 



Cover winter spinach and hardy onion sets with hay as soon as 

 the ground begins to freeze hard at night, to prevent freezing and 

 thawing. 



December. Clean up the garden and continue the marketing of 

 vegetables if it is not already attended to. 



Carefully study the season's work, note the profits or losses on 

 the last crop, and what has been learned that will be useful another 

 year. 



At odd times the following may be attended to: Gather manure, 

 make crates and boxes for marketing fruits, vegetables, and plants, 

 repair tools, wagons, harnesses, sashes, hotbeds, and cold frames. 

 Clean up! 



LABORATORY EXERCISES IN VEGETABLE GARDENING 



WHERE the subject of vegetable gardening is given during the 

 spring term of school many interesting laboratory exercises may be 

 conducted in a small greenhouse or garden plot. This adds a great 

 deal to the interest of the students and makes the teaching of the sub- 

 ject much more effective. A very few exercises are suggested below. 

 Many others may be worked out from the text. Where commercial 

 greenhouses or large vegetable farms are to be found in a community, 

 it is well to interest the class in their methods. Visits should be made 

 to these establishments several times during the season and careful 

 notes taken on the work in progress. 



1. Make a plan of a kitchen garden, locating vegetables as to 

 position, distance, etc. 



2. Use nitrate of soda on one spinach plot and not on another. 

 Use well-rotted and fresh manures on plots. 



3. Make and plant hotbeds and cold frames. This is a good 

 problem if manual training is given in the school. 



4. Sow seed of various vegetables, to learn names, varieties, 

 and habits. 



5. Transplant young seedlings of lettuce, cabbage, celery, etc., 

 to flats and to open ground. 



6. Make spraying preparations, and apply them, if possible. 



7. Study the value of different tools in cultivating. 



8. Use different cultural methods where possible. 



9. Compare hand sowing and machine sowing of like seeds. - 

 10. Make germination tests of a number of common seeds. 



