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RENNIE S AGRICULTURE. 



Tomatoes. — These plants are supposed to be 

 started in a hot-bed or cold frame. For best results 

 transplant into flat boxes, and when all danger of 

 frost is past transplant (on a cloudy day if possible) 

 three feet apart each way. Reliable varieties are 

 the "Earliana" and "Livingston's New Globe." 



Turnips. — For early turnips, sow in spring, in 

 rows two feet apart, and thin to eight inches. For 

 an early variety, "Early Snowball" is satisfactory, 

 and for winter use sow "Hartley's Bronze Top 

 Swede" about first of July. 



13. DRILI. PLOW WITH POTATO DIGGER ATTACHMENT. 



Potatoes. — In the cultivation of potatoes for 

 early market the largest profit is from the very 

 earliest, so that there has now come to be quite a 

 strife among farmers and market gardeners to be 

 first. In order to gain this, the soil, if not naturally 

 dry and warm, must be made so by under-draining. 

 In the autumn, give a good coat of farm manure. 

 Then put the land up in narrow ribs for winter. In 

 spring, harrow and cultivate the ribs down, and, on 

 clay land, loosen the subsoil ten or twelve inches 

 deep, and again cultivate and harrow thoroughly. 



