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tinning for a month, according to con- 

 ditions." 



Fertilizer. "We use both barnyard 

 manure (using all of this that is made on 

 the farms, as well as shipping in considerable 

 from the stockyards at Chicago) and 

 artificial fertilizer. In the latter, muriate of 

 potash is the chief constituent, but we also 

 use some bone meal or dissolved bone, some 

 superphosphate, and some nitrogen, part in 

 the form of dried blood and part in the form 

 of nitrate of soda." 



A large field of Onions. 



Cultivation. "The crop is hoed and 

 weeded by hand and cultivated with horses 

 as potatoes, corn, etc., but of course it is cul- 

 tivated in only one direction, lengthwise of 

 the row. No spraying is done, for although 

 mint is sometimes attacked with parasites 

 and 'rust/ we know of no spraying that 



