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The only way I think I could improve on this plan 

 would be to sink ordinary drain tile a few inches below 

 the surface and run water through these. They would 

 leak at the joints, then there would be no trouble with 

 the ground baking. This I intend to try next year in 

 my celery bed. With us if we do not have some easy 



CELERY, DENIM HOSE BETWEEN ROWS 



v/ay of using water our gardens simply dry up, as 

 we always have a drouth during the summer. This 

 evening, ]\Tay 7, I started the windmill, and with ten 

 minutes* work with a hoe had the water running the 

 whole length of my double row of peas, and down 

 through the strawberries below. It would be an im- 

 provement if I had a bank in the garden so that I could 



