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beets to four or five inches apart and the carrots to two 

 or three inches apart. The best way is to pick the bugs 

 from the squashes every day. Carbohc acid dikited 

 with water will keep the bugs away for three or four 

 days. I paris green the potatoes with a spray pump. 

 It holds about a pint of water. Put in one teaspoon- 

 ful of paris green every time. The Early Michigan 

 tomato plants I set out four by four feet apart and the 

 cabbages two and one-half by two and one-half feet. 

 I pay one and one-half cents for picking strawberries, 

 one-fourth cent more than the regular price. I have 

 them assorted when they are picked, being careful not 

 to have them bruised. The two-year-old strawberry 

 bed on the east side was nearly a failure on account 

 of freezing and the drouth. I only covered the new 

 bed with straw. After picking a few quarts from this 

 old bed I plowed it and set it to tomatoes and cabbages. 

 I had six kinds of strawberries this year, the Wilson, 

 Buback, Jessie, Marshall, Sharpless and Van Deman. 

 The Buback, Jessie and Wilson have done the best for 

 me. The Van Deman is a good early berry. Thq 

 Sharpless I have given up and shall give up the Mar- 

 shall next year. The celery plants I transplanted when 

 about two inches high into a well prepared bed, about 

 two inches apart. 



July. — The early potato ground I sowed to tur- 

 nips in drills two feet apart. Cucumber seed I planted 

 in hills about six feet apart, twelve to fifteen seeds to 

 a hill, thinning out to about six vines in a hill. Pump- 

 kins I thinned to two or three vines in a hill. Renewed 

 the old strawberry bed by mowing them down after 

 fruiting and cultivating and hoeing them out. Set 

 out one row of strawberries between a row of potatoes. 

 Cauliflower I set two and one-half feet apart. For 

 celery I dug trenches about ten inches deep, worked in 



