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PRIZE GARDENING 



inch hemlock boards twelve inches wide and made a 

 frame forty-seven feet long and three and one-half 

 feet wide, just the width and length of the cloth and 

 glass sashes combined, and put in the necessary cross- 

 pieces to slide the sash on. We had ready a compost 

 manure one-third each of horse, hog and hen manure. 

 This had been thoroughly worked over four or five 

 times. With hoes we made inside this frame twelve 

 holes eight inches deep and two feet in diameter. Put 



CUCUMBER VINES DUSTED WITH LIME, AND BOX FRAMES 



in two tile sixteen inches long and two inches in diam- 

 eter. In each hill we put a heaping shovelful of the 

 compost manure. We now added one-half the soil 

 thrown out of the holes to the manure and thoroughly 

 mixed it with a spreading fork. We then put on each 

 hill all the hardwood ashes we could take up in one 

 hand, then put back the balance of the soil thrown out 

 of the holes. Sowed five pounds of potash on top of 



