ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1. Market Garden near Boston, on Land Worth $10,000 per Acre. . . 2 



2. Field of Muskmelons 5 



3. Farmer's Home Vegetable Garden 7 



4. Michigan Celery Field 9 



5. Result of Planting Unreliable Seed 16 



6. Good and Poor Types of Cabbage of the Same Variety 17 



7. Sectional Views of the Cabbage Heads Sho-wn in Fig. 6 18 



8. Result of Five Years' Selection for Thickness of Flesh in Muskmelons 18 



9. Washing Tomato Seed 19 



10. View in Seedsman's Trial Grounds 21 



11. Compost Pile Being Made in September for Use the Following May 27 



12. Heavy Grow^th of Cow Peas to be Plowed under for Green Manure 28 



13. Four-horse Load of Manure near Boston 29 



14. Manure Spreader in Operation 31 



15. Applying JVIanure to Melon Hills 32 



16. Making Heavy Application of Manure for Fall Crop of Spinach. . . 33 



17. Overhead Pipes in Skinner System of Irrigation 36 



18. Irrigating Onions near Greeley, Colorado 37 



19. Field of Cabbage Furrowed out ready for Irrigating 38 



20. Furrow Irrigation of Melons (Cantaloupes) Immediately Following 



Planting 39 



21. Narrow Tooth Cultivator 40 



22. Conserving Moisture by Thorough Tilling 41 



23. Well-grown Tomato Plants ready for Transplanting 50 



24. Transplanting Lettuce Seedlings from One Flat into Another 52 



25. Watermelon Plants in Veneer Dirt Band, ready for Transplanting . . 53 



26. A Pot-growTi Tomato Plant 53 



27. Remo\dng Tops from Beet Seedlings Preparatory to Transplanting. 54 



28. Newly Transplanted Celery 54 



29. Dibber 55 



30. Trowel 56 



31. Transplanting Machine 56 



32. Cloth-covered Coldframe 59 



33. Modem Greenhouse 59 



34. Simplest Form of Manure Hotbed 61 



35. Diagram of Frame for Manure Hotbed 62 



36. Cross-section of Simplest Form of Manure Hotbed 63 



37. Longitudinal Section of Fire Hotbed 65 



38. Cloth-covered Coldframe Eighty-four Feet Long 66 



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