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more acceptable to some. It should find a place in 

 every garden. Cultivate in every way like cabbage, 

 except that the plants may be set out twelve inches 

 apart in the drill. Cut for use w^hen the bulb is about 

 three inches in diameter, tender and not *' woody," 

 cook and prepare for the table like turnip or with 

 cream like cauliflower. 



The sweet corn was planted in single rows the 

 length of the garden, and under those circumstances 

 the fertilization of the ears was less perfect than usual. 

 Sweet corn evidently requires considerable cross- 

 fertilization between individual plants, hence planting 

 a given number of hills in a compact mass is doubtless 

 much better practice than putting an equal number of 

 hills in a long single row. 



The peas planted July 25 produced only one pick- 

 ing of nine quarts, and the vines were badly covered 

 with mildew. The beans planted at the same time 

 gave nothing, as they were killed by the frost of Sep- 

 tember 14-16 when the first bean pods were about one 

 inch In length. Neither could be called a success- 

 ful crop. 



In planting potatoes, fertilizer was first broad- 

 casted over the plot and worked into the soil, the small 

 stones being raked out before plowing. The furrows 

 were made with the garden drill with plow attach- 

 ment, the first one on the east side, nine inches from 

 the boundary line running north and south. Six 

 others were made parallel with the first and eighteen 

 inches apart. Extra Early potatoes had been exposed 

 to the light in a single layer in a moderately warm 

 room since March 30 and had developed buds about 

 one-half inch in length. The tubers were carefully 

 cut into one and two-eye pieces and immediately placed 

 in the bottom of the furrows, the sets being twelve 

 inches apart. Five pounds of potatoes planted the 



