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CAULIFLOWER FEEDING AND WATERING THE 

 CROP 



are two prime requisites to growing cauli- 

 -- flower successfully, namely, an abundance of easily 

 available plant food and a constant water supply. Given 

 these, this vegetable may be grown anywhere excepting 

 in those sections that know no cool seasons or where 

 water cannot be supplied. 



Besides enriching the soil liberally prior to setting out 

 the plants, repeated watering with liquid manure will 

 greatly benefit the crop. In sections where an abundance 

 of rainfall is apt to cause heavy clay or loaming soils to 

 be sour, the liberal use of lime will greatly benefit soil. 



While well-rotted manure, used in liberal quantities, 

 will be found most useful, one hundred pounds of a com- 

 plete commercial fertilizer to every piece of ground size 

 30 x 60 feet will prove a wonderful stimulus to the crop. 

 It should be applied in instalments, using one-fourth when 

 preparing the soil and giving three applications of twenty- 

 five pounds each at intervals throughout the season. 



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