94 TRUCK FARMING 



out the winter season at our hotels. If good care is given them 

 throughout their growth, applying about 400 pounds of nitrate* 

 of soda per acre, just as they begin to bottom, they will, other 

 conditions being right, make a very remunerative crop, as high 

 as 800 bushels per acre having been grown in this vicinity by 

 those who are conversant with the industry. 



* See last part of Chapter VI. 



