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but sixty loads of manure were obtained last year, and 

 this scant supply, with irrigation and elbow grease, 

 made possible a fair yield. A good local market in a 

 neighboring city of twenty thousand inhabitants took 

 most of the produce raised, although at times the mar- 

 ket was glutted and much had to be thrown away. 

 Mr. Rembaugh truthfully remarks : '' There is noth- 

 ing like thorough cultivation and an abundant water 

 supply in case of dry weather for making a beautiful 

 garden. It is useless to garden for profit unless you 

 have a large supply of fertilizers and a sufficiently 

 large market to take your produce." 



He began the gardening operations late in Jan- 

 uary by sowing tomato seed in shallow boxes in the 

 house. Early in March, two cold frames were sown 

 to radish, and others were planted March 25 with rad- 

 ish, beets and lettuce. A hotbed, six by sixteen feet, 

 was planted to cucumbers April 22, being filled with 

 sods cut five inches square. On each sod five seeds 

 were planted and covered with a little soil. Some 

 muskmelons were planted in the same manner. 



The first planting in the open ground was April 

 15, when one bushel peas, three pounds spinach, five 

 pounds radish, one pound onion, one-half pound turnip 

 and one-half pound celery seed were sown. The first 

 tomato plants were set May 2 by digging a hole nine 

 inches deep and putting in the bottom a shovelful of 

 mixed soil and manure. \\^ater was poured in the hole 

 before setting the plants. The ground for cucumbers 

 and melons was laid ofif in furrows nine inches deep 

 by going four times with the Planet Jr cultivator with 

 teeth set close together. A shovelful of compost was 

 put in the furrow every three and one-half feet and on 

 this a block of sod from the hotbed with the plants was 

 set. The melons were set six feet each way. The 

 manure and soil from a mushroom bed was well mixed 



