Food for the ground between rows so quickly that cultivation is limited 

 ants to the first few weeks of growth. This is also an argument 

 I2 * for a thorough preparation of the soil, deep plowing and 

 deep working in preparing the hills. 



As soon as the plants are well started, work into the soil 

 about the hills a few ounces of a Nitrated ammoniate (Ni- 

 trate of Soda), a quantity per hill corresponding to 250 to 

 350 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre. 



The best way is to scatter the fertilizer for two feet 

 around the hills and rake it into the soil with a steel garden 

 rake. This not only mixes the fertilizer with the soil, but it 

 loosens the ground and kills all small weeds that are coming 

 up. 



If at any time the hills should show a sickly yellow, ap- 

 ply Nitrate at once, however late in the season. 



Cucumbers, squashes and cantaloupes should be planted 

 in hills 5 feet apart each way, watermelons in hills 10 feet 

 apart each way. On very light soils, heavy rains are apt to 

 leach out available plant food, a result soon followed by a 

 yellowing of the stem of the plants. This is invariably a sign 

 of a lack of Nitrated plant food. Level culture rather than 

 ridges seems to be found more generally successful. 



Formula for Melons: 



Nitrate of Soda (in two or more applications) 800 Ibs. 



Superphosphate 800 ' 



Muriate of potash 200 ' 



Profitable Onion Cultivation. 



Adaptability of There is no crop that can be grown 



the Onion to so successfully on a large scale, on such a 

 all Soils. variety of soil and climate, and that will 



respond more profitably to intelligent cultivation and fer- 

 tilizing, than the onion. The American farmer has usually 

 been willing to leave the growing of this savory vegetable 

 almost entirely to the enterprising foreign immigrant, who 

 often makes more net profit at the end of the season from 

 his five acres of onions than the general farmer makes on one 

 hundred acres. The weeder and the improved wheel-hoe 

 have made it comparatively easy to care for the crop ; there 

 is no reason why the progressive farmer who is looking about 



