APRIL: FIFTH WEEK 115 



color and drop prematurely, even during June and July. 

 Use of lime-sulphur before the buds swell is effective. After 

 the leaves are out care must be taken not to get the spray 

 too strong. 



MILDEW. For most forms in the fruit and vegetable 

 gardens Bordeaux mixture is effective. For gooseberries 

 potassium-sulphide spray is better. 



RUST. This attacks various things, assuming several 

 forms and causing a burned or blighted appearance of the 

 foliage. Use Bordeaux mixture, lime-sulphur, or am- 

 moniacal copper carbonate solution. 



Start the Vine Crops Right 



The vine crops cucumbers, squash, etc. should all be 

 planted in specially prepared hills, whether seeds or plants 

 are used. These hills should be prepared as follows: Mark 

 out rows, four to eight feet apart each way, according to 

 the crop and variety to be grown, and with a hoe scrape 

 out hills four to six inches deep and eighteen inches or so 

 across. Into each hill put a forkful or two of thoroughly 

 rotted manure or compost, mixing it well with the soil. If 

 no manure is available a mixture of tankage or guano, bone 

 dust and cottonseed meal may be used, two or three hand- 

 fuls being well mixed with the soil. The hills should be 

 made deeper where manure is to be used. Then fill in with 

 good soil until the hill is as high as, or, if the soil is wet, 

 slightly higher than, the soil level, but flat on top. 



Plant twelve to twenty seeds of cucumbers or musk- 

 melons, eight to twelve seeds of watermelons or summer 

 squash, and six to eight seeds of winter squash or pumpkin. 



In setting out any of the vine plants from pots, even when 

 they have been carefully grown in dirt bands, the job must 

 be managed carefully or they will wilt badly. Use plenty 

 of water, and shade for a day or two. A supply of tobacco 

 dust should be kept on hand, so that the ground may be 

 sprinkled as soon as the plants begin to push through, and 

 this should be used freely from then on as a preventive for 

 striped beetle and other enemies. 



