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early sweet corn, transplanted onions from cold frame 

 to open ground, made second sowing of peas, made a 

 cold frame for planting melons and planted seed 

 therein, sowed cabbage in open ground for late cabbage, 

 cultivated all growing crops. 



June. — Transplanted melon plants and planted 

 melon seed in open ground, completed transplanting 

 tomato plants, sowed late beans, thinned onions, trans- 

 planted sweet potato plants and late cabbage plants, 

 applied insecticide for cabbage worms, cultivated all 

 growing crops and irrigated as far as possible. 



July. — Sowed turnips, also onions for sets, culti- 

 vated growing crops and irrigated. 



August and September. — Ditto. 



October. — Ditto. Also removed all remaining 

 crops from the ground, completing the season's 

 operations. 



In the Loz^'er San Gabriel Valley, a part of one 

 of the most famous irrigated sections of the Pacific 

 coast, was a thrifty and profitable garden managed by 

 E. H. Ashley, Rivera, California, winner of the 

 seventh prize. 



The garden is in \\'alnut irrigation district, obtain- 

 ing water from the San Gabriel river by means of a 

 dam, the water being conveyed in dirt ditches. The 

 preceding winter and spring (our season of rain) being 

 exceptionally dry, irrigation has been practiced this 

 year more or less all the time. In ordinary seasons, 

 however, irrigation is resorted to from about May i 

 to the end of September. The water right is paid for 

 with the land, the water being practically free to the 

 users, a nominal charge being made of fifteen cents per 

 hour for a " head " of one hundred to one hundred and 

 fifty "miners' inches" (or one thousand one hundred 

 and sixty to one thousand seven hundred and forty 

 gallons per minute). F'or garden purposes have used 



