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and my family have had many meals consisting 

 of whipped cream and popcorn." 



'There is no necessity of giving detailed in- 

 structions for irrigating each of the garden 

 vegetables. In general, furrow irrigation should 

 be practiced. The garden plants should be grown 

 in rows wide apart and watered in furrows deep 

 enough so the top of the rows are never under 

 w r ater. Quick and frequent irrigations followed 

 by careful cultivation is the secret of greatest 

 success. There are a few plants, notably the 

 onion, which seem to give larger crops if flood 

 irrigated. The onion bed may be surrounded 

 with furrows or levees from six inches to a foot 

 high and irrigated by filling with water. Un- 

 less there is good, quick-acting under-drainage, 

 the water should be drawn off the bed after 

 standing a couple of hours. 



Plants which require and stand the most 

 w^ater are celery, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes 

 and turnips. Such things as spinach, lettuce 

 and melons need frequent irrigations and culti- 

 vations to keep the soil moist and warm. 



Often where water is scarce a garden may be 

 irrigated by catehing a bank of snow T in winter 

 or by winter irrigation, or by catching the flood 

 w r ater from sudden storms or melting snow. 

 Flood water may be stored in a small reservoir, 

 and if it supplies only one light irrigation it will 

 pay. Methods of dry farm practice to store 

 moisture in the soil are always valuable. 



