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Fig. 4. 



A Heavy Crop of Vegetables is Permissible in a Young Orchard Where Proper 

 Attention is Given to Fertilization. 



care not to give the melon too much water 

 after it is once started and the young 

 melon is well formed. This is not true of 

 cantaloupes although cantaloupes and 

 watermelons are frequently grown on the 

 same ground or in adjacent rows. On 

 the other hand it probably takes twice 

 or three times as much water to grow 

 onions as to grow watermelons. They 

 need more than is usually given to the 

 trees, while the melons need less, conse- 

 quently if care is observed to give the 

 onions enough water the trees are not 

 likely to suffer. 



Potatoes 



Potatoes are easily grown and are a 

 fairly profitable crop, yielding sometimes 

 as high as $200 or $300 per acre. The 

 price of potatoes fluctuates greatly. We 

 would especially recommend potatoes if 

 the land has been in alfalfa or clover 

 previous to setting the orchard. It is not 

 uncommon for potatoes to bring $30 ])er 

 ton one year, and the next year scarcely 

 pay the cost of growing. The rule is 

 that if potatoes are very high in price 

 one j'ear they will be low the next year 

 and not a profitable crop. Many old farm- 

 ers say, "When seed is cheap, plant po- 

 tatoes: when it is high, sell your seed." 



This rule is not infallible, for we have 

 seen it fail; but it is so nearly true that 

 in an average of ten years, the profits to 

 the growers who follow it will be much 

 larger than to those who plant without 

 an.v observation as to whether seed is 

 high or low. 



Tomatoes 



Tomatoes are a very profitable crop in 

 soils and under conditions to which they 

 are adapted. In some countries they 

 blight to such an extent that the returns 

 are uncertain, but where they can be 

 grown successfully and without too much 

 risk, and close to the market, they yield 

 large returns. We have known in excep- 

 tional cases profits of $600 to be gathered 

 from one acre of tomatoes. Again, we 

 have known them to fail entirely, so that 

 the profits may be estimated at from noth- 

 ing to $600 per acre. How to prevent to- 

 mato blight will be treated in the article 

 on tomatoes. 



rncHmbers 



Perhaps no truck crop will bring larger 

 returns for the given -amount of labor 

 than cucumbers, provided they are grown 

 sufficiently near the market to be picked 

 and ro-irketed every day. One man mar- 

 keted in one year from one acre of land 



