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contents as the different vegetables come on. We could dis- 

 pose of everything we raise on the 18 acres in the home ham- 

 pers if we would. 



Melons. Montreal melons at $3.50 apiece, $36 a dozen 

 wholesale ! They raise them under glass, little cold frames ; 

 thev have to keep the glass on throughout the early season. 

 We raise melons and good ones, using soap boxes and bags, 

 and they do well. What do we do to keep the blight off? 

 It is a hard proposition, but we do it with Bordeaux mixture 

 and keep our melon vines two weeks longer than our neigh- 

 bors and then usually the blight gets us. In New Jersey, 

 some use rotten fish, kerosene, or anything that stinks, be- 

 cause they say that bugs don't like bad smells. The blight 

 is a different proposition ; they say there is no cure. Bor- 

 deaux is a preventative. We begin to spray early ; that is the 

 secret of spraying; begin just as soon as your plant is up. 

 We always use a combination of Bordeavix and arsenate of 

 lead on cabbages and melons. We use that on fruit trees 

 three or four times a season and have never seen any injury. 

 We used lime and sulphur and that was all right. We have 

 used Scalecide and that is all right. They both of them 

 accomplish their purpose absolutely. I know that positively. 

 If you follow directions I do not believe there can any injury 

 come from Scalecide and I never heard of any from the use 

 of Bordeaux. I have heard of serious injury to the apple 

 from the use of Target brand of scale oil. I went down on 

 the Peninsula and was told that it had absolutely killed or- 

 chards ; so you mustn't use all miscible oils. Use some com- 

 mon sense in spraving with any mixture. 



Water Melons. A mighty good crop; they have to be 

 raised on the right kind of soil. Water melons, like corn, 

 you must eat fresh, with the dew on. There are many fine 

 melons ; we don't find much difference in the taste, but there 

 is a difference in the shipping quality. The Sweetheart is 

 a fine melon, also the Kleckley Sweets. 



Sea Kale. After you get your bed of it. like asparagus 

 it will come up in the spring and absolutely break through 



