SQUASH 



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SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY 



3. Therefore a square always has an even 

 number of decimal places, and the root has 

 one-half as many decimal places as the square. 



4. To find the square root of a decimal num- 

 ber (a) work as if it were an integer; (b) point 

 off one-half as many decimal places in the root 

 as there are in the square. 



V~T0009 = .03 



\fz35 =1.6 



Note that .625 has but three decimal places; 

 add one place so that it has an even number 

 of decimal places. 



A root is carried out as many decimal places 

 as desired by annexing two decimal zeros to 

 the square for each decimal place desired in 

 the root; for example, find VTto two decimal 

 places. 



1.73 



3.00'00 

 1 



2X10 = 20 



+ 7 



27 



2X170 = 340 

 + 3 

 343 



189 



1100 

 1029 



SQUASH, a plant of the gourd family culti- 

 vated for its fruit. It is a familiar and well- 

 liked garden vegetable. Squash is cooked in 

 various ways. It is most commonly served in 

 the same way as mashed potatoes, or used as 



TWO VARIETIES 



In rear, summer squash ; in foreground, crook- 

 neck squash. 



filling for pies. The plant grows as a trailing 

 vine and as a bush, and bears large green 

 leaves with many lobes, and large, tubular, 

 orange-yellow flowers. There are two general 

 kinds, the summer and the winter. Summer 

 varieties, represented by the crookneck, usu- 

 ally grow as bush plants. The fruits are usually 

 smaller than winter varieties, and the plants 



have hard, dense stems. Summer squash will 

 grow in the shade of cornstalks or in a sunny 

 situation, and will endure both heat and 

 drought, as this type adapts itself readily to 

 almost any condition. A summer squash is 

 gathered and eaten before fully ripe. 



Winter varieties, represented by the Hub- 

 bard, are usually vine plants. The fruits are 

 heavy and thick-skinned. They are allowed 

 to come to maturity but must be gathered be- 

 fore frost injures them, and if stored in a dry 



WARTED HUBBARD SQUASH 



place they will keep through the winter. The 

 best-liked varieties retain their green color 

 when ripe. Squashes do best in a soil contain- 

 ing a good deal of humus. Bush varieties are 

 planted in hills about four feet apart each way, 

 but trailers need more space. 



Squash Bug, an ill-smelling insect that at- 

 tacks both squash and pumpkin vines. It is 

 slightly more than half an inch long, and is 

 brownish-black above and dirty yellow below. 

 Adult insects sleep through the winter. The 

 eggs are laid in the spring on young leaves 

 and sprouts, and the young hatch in about two 

 weeks. They injure the growing plants by 

 sucking the sap. There are several measures 

 used to combat the pest. One of these is pick- 

 ing the bugs off the vines before the eggs are 

 laid. Young plants should be protected by 

 means of frames covered with mosquito net- 

 ting. Bugs can be trapped under shingles 

 placed about the vines, and then be destroyed. 

 Any egg clusters which are found should be 

 crushed. M.K. 



SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY, skwat' er sov' 

 erinti, or POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, in the 

 history of the United States, was the doctrine 

 that the inhabitants of a territory had the right 

 to regulate their internal affairs without inter- 

 ference from the national government. Whence 

 or from whom the theory came is not known, 

 but its first public statement by a man of 

 prominence was in a letter written by Lewis 

 Cass. (December, 1847), who suggested that the 

 territories be allowed "to regulate their internal 



