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VEGETABLE GROWING. 



zers to use for one acre to secure the desired quantity 

 of each element : 

 Element. 



Nitrogen 



Pounds of different material for one acre. 

 ( 300 to 450 Ibs. cotton-seed meal ; or 

 I 180 to 270 Ibs. dried blood ; or 

 " 1 120 to 180 Ibs. nitrate of soda ; or 

 L 100 to 150 Ibs. sulphate of ammonia. 

 { 600 to 900 Ibs.' kainit ; or 

 100 to 150 Ibs. muriate of potash ; or 



Potash '\ 100 to 150 Ibs. sulphate of potash; or 



| 200 to 300 Ibs. sulphate of potash and 

 sulphate of magnesia, 



, . . , f 550 to 800 Ibs. acid phosphate : or 

 Phosphoric acid.... { 45Q to m lbg disso f ved F bone . 



VARIETIES. 



The Hollow Crown and Student (see 

 Fig. 37) are good, long varieties ; the 

 first named is the larger and loDger. A 

 shorter variety is Maltese, but the first 

 two meet with greater favor. 



SOWING AND CULTIVATING. 



Sow during September, October and 

 November. The earliest sowing will al- 

 low the plants to mature by the first of 

 January. The summer crop has not met 

 with as much success. There is no dan- 

 ger of the young plants being frozen. 

 Make the rows eighteen inches or two feet apart and 

 thin to four inches in the row. The seed is a little 

 slow to germinate, so it will be well to add some radish 

 or turnip seed to mark the row. 



The cultivation is best carried on by horse after the 

 plants are about four or five inches high. 



When the roots are about a foot lon^ and an inch in 

 diameter, they will be found sufficiently mature to use. 

 Parsnips are marketed in bulk, very much as 

 potatoes. 



The preparation for table use is quite similar to that 

 of potatoes. 



FIG. 37. 



