C ONTENTS. 



Introduction 3 



What is a Squash?... 4 



Selecting the Soil 5 



The Manure 7 



How Much Manure ? 9 



Preparing and Applying the Manure 12 



Preparing the Hills 16 



Planting the Seed 12 



Hill Culture and Level Culture 21 



Hoeing and Cultivating 21 



Squashes with other Crops .24 



Setting of the Fruit 25 



Pinching Vines 29 



Ripening and Gathering the Crop 29 



A Critical Period.... 31 



The Storing of the Crop 33 



Cure During the Winter 36 



Marketing the Crop 38 



Frost-bitten Squashes 40 



Squashes for Stock 42 



Varieties of Squashes 44 



Hubbard 44 



American Turban 46 



Autumnal Marrow 49 



Crookneck 51 



Yokohama 52 



Para, or Polk 53 



Summer Squashes 53 



Enemies of the Vine 55 



Woodchucks and Muskrats 60 



Saving Seed 61 



Instincts and Habits of Squash Vines 67 



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