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PRIZE GARDENING 



By leaving this straw on them a week or two longer 

 it will protect them from frost and prolong the season 

 for ripe berries. I put a small handful of fertilizer 

 on the hills of potatoes and worked it in with the 

 weeder. I soaked some of the seed potatoes in corro- 

 sive sublimate water for scabs before cutting. I take 

 about two ounces corrosive sublimate dissolved in a 

 little warm water, then put it into about sixteen gal- 

 lons of water in a barrel; stir it up well, put in pota- 



WORKING A NEW YORK TRUCK PATCH 



toes and let them soak about one and one-half hours. 

 This water is good for about four batches. Be care- 

 ful that stock do not eat any of the seed. Hotbeds 

 made the last of March and first of April I only put 

 about a foot of manure in. 



May. — I set strawberry plants three and one-half 

 feet by twenty inches in rows, digging the hole with 

 a trowel and pressing the dirt firmly around the roots. 



