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HORTICULTURE BY IRRIGATION. 



These spouts are usually made of boards. The accompanying illustration 

 will show front elevation of the cellar and its appearance when completed. 

 The cost of one thirty by sixty feet would be about $150. When ready to 

 move or market the potatoes, back the wagon down into the cellar by 

 hand, and haul the load out with teams. This will save the labor of 

 carrying them out, a sack at a time, on the back. Cellars are sometimes 

 made with entrances at both ends, so that wagonk may be driven in at one 

 door and out at the other, and also so that a team may turn or back 

 around in them. 



* The best varieties for a general crop around Greeley are the Mam- 

 moth Pearl, Kose Seedling, Snow Flake and Early Rose. The Ohio and 



Convenient Potato Cellar. 



a, boards; 6, straw; c, dirt; d, posts running lengthwise of cellar; h, door; g, shoot 

 and ventilation; i, bottom of pit. 



Beauty of Hebron do well in special localities. Of the above the Rose 

 Seedling and Mammoth Pearl are the best yielders. The Snow Flake is 

 not as heavy a producer, but is a fine quality and an excellent keeper. 

 Average yield one year with another is, with field culture, one hundred 

 bushels to the acre. This return is often largely exceeded. During the 

 year 1887 two hundred bushels to the acre was not uncommon, and in a 

 few instances even this figure was doubled. 



