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LippiNCOTT's Farm Manuals 



EDITED BY K. C. DAVIS, Ph.D. (Cornell) 



PRODUCTIVE 

 VEGETABLE GROWING 



BY 



JOHN W. LLOYD, M.S.A. 



PROFESSOR OF OLERICULTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 



193 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



" If vain our toil, 

 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." 

 Pope — Essay on Man 



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