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Carrots. Same kind of soil, same manure. 20 to 25 tons 

 per acre. Seed, Horn Carrot. 



Beets. Same soil, with plenty of manure. Sow in drills. 

 Seed, Turnip Beet. 



Squash. Same soil, with compost manure and plenty of it. 

 Sow in hills ten feet apart, leave two seeds in a hill. Plant 

 about June 1. 



Melons. Light, loamy or sandy soil, with good, rotten ma- 

 nure, three or four shovelfuls in each hill, six feet apart ; leave 

 two seeds in a hill ; plant the middle of May. 



Seed. 1 raise most of the seed I use. As soon as the seed 

 breaks ground, begin to hoe and pull weeds, continuing from 

 time to time, until the weeds are all killed out. 



Bugs. Squash bugs are kept off with air-slacked lime put 

 on the plants every morning when the dew is on the leaf. Po- 

 tato bugs are destroyed by using Paris Green. Put one table- 

 spoonful into a pail of water and stir it well, then with a 

 sprinkling pot go over the*vines two or three times a day until 

 they are killed out. 



Sarvesting. Onions — when the tops begin to dry and fall, 

 we begin to pull them and let them remain on the ground until 

 dry ; then get them into the barn and pull off the tops, keeping 

 them in a dry place where they can have the air. 



Grass land to yield well wants to be well-manured, and for 

 all crops, the more manure the better and larger the crops. 



Reply of Seth W. Hathaway of Marblehead, Mass. 



My soil is of strong, dark loam, with clay bottom. I use 

 stable manure mixed with sea manure. I think highly of Rus- 

 sell Coe's Phosphate, also, Peruvian Guano. I raise my own 

 seeds. I plant as soon as the ground is suitable to receive the 

 seeds, and continue to plant until the first of July, using plenty 

 of seed each time, to be sure of a full supply of plants, and if 

 I have any surplus there is generally a demand for them. I 

 protect them from bugs and worms by using slacked lime and 

 ashes. The cabbages that I keep for seed I have covered up 



