40 SQUASHES, HOW TO GKOW THEM, ETC 



FROST-BITTEN SQUASHES. 



With the utmost care, squashes will at times get frost- 

 bitten. The -Marrows and Turbans show this by turning 

 a darker orange color on the part frozen. If as much as 

 one-half of the squash has been frozen, it is frozen through 

 its thickness, and will very certainly soon decay, and the 

 best disposition to make of it is, to keep it at about freez- 

 ing point in an ice-house, until fed to stock. If less than 

 half has been frozen, before the sun shines on it turn the 

 frozen surface under, and keep out the light as much as 

 possible ; this will take out the frost and save it, if any 

 remedy will, though a frozen squash is always unreliable 

 property. Some years since, I had a load of Marrow 

 squashes brought me, which had been stored in a barn 

 during a cold spell, and the outer tiers had been frost- 

 bitten. I separated the badly frost-bitten ones, putting 

 them, frozen side down, in a dark cellar on the damp 

 earth, and stored such as showed no signs of injury on 

 the shelves. In a few days, no sign of frost could be seen 

 on those stored in the cellar, and they kept apparently as 

 well as though they had never been injured, while those 

 stored on the shelves soon rotted badly. The Hubbard 

 squash is not as much injured by frost as are the Marrow 

 and Turban ; if it has a shell on it, the result will usually 

 be the production of a dry rot under the shell as far as 

 the frost extended, and no further. I have cut squashes 

 in February that had been frozen in November, over an 

 area of about five inches square, and found all the injury 

 done limited to this space. 



MARKET PRICES OF SQUASHES. 



Within the past six years, Marrow squashes have varied 

 in price in the markets of New England from $10 to $40 

 per ton ; these variations are caused, for the most part, by 

 the quantity brought to market, for, though equal areas 



