470 



GARDEN FARMING 



Potatoes, insects and diseases 

 blights, 355 

 scab, 356 

 scabby tubers, illustrated, 



356 



marketing, 364 

 planting, 352 



with machine, 353 

 seed, 346 



treatment of, for scab, 348 

 shipment and marketing, 365 

 soil, 345 



preparation, 346 

 sorting and grading, 364 

 spraying, 357 



rig for, 359 

 storage, 366 



cold, 104 



house, frost-proof, illus- 

 trated, 368 



wall construction for, 



369 

 pit, illustrated, 367 



Colorado type, illus- 

 trated, 84 



pitting in field, 366 

 rooms, temperature of, 



369 

 transportation, 370 



sheet-iron stove used, il- 

 lustrated, 370 

 varieties, 371 

 origin and distribution, 343 



map showing distribution, in the 



United States, 347 

 truck crop at the South, 372-382 

 distribution, 372 

 grading, 380 

 harvesting, 378 



digging with plow, illus- 

 trated, 378 

 illustrated, 379 

 marketing, 381 

 packages, 379 



barreled, ready for ship- 

 ment, illustrated, 380 

 seed, germination of second 



crop, 376 

 held-over, 377 

 poor stand, due to, illus- 

 trated, 374 

 quantity, 375 

 reproduction, 388 

 source, 375 

 soil, 373 



preparation, 374 

 variations, 373 

 varieties, 377 



Potatoes 



under irrigation, 382-390 

 cultivation, 383 

 harvesting, 385 



illustrated, 385 

 irrigation, 384 

 planting, 383 

 seed, growing plants from, 389 



reproduction, 388 

 soil, preparing the, 382 

 storage houses, 385 

 varieties, new, 387 

 Precooling, 98, 101 

 Preparation of fungicides, 14 

 Production of plants for transplanting 



purposes, 47 

 Pumpkins, 390-391 

 cultivation, 390 

 enemies, 391 



harvesting and marketing, 391 

 varieties, 391 



Puttying glass for greenhouse, illus- 

 trated, 64 



Radiating surface for greenhouses, 66 



how determined, 69 

 Radishes, 392-402 

 botany, 392 

 field crop, 393-396 



companion and succession 



crop, 393 

 cultivation, 396 

 harvesting, 396 

 profits, 401 

 seed, 395 



sowing, 395 

 soil, 393 



preparation, 393 

 thinning, 396 

 varieties, 401 

 forcing crop, 397-402 



cold frame and hotbed, con- 

 struction of, 397 

 seed for, 398 

 seed sowing in, 398 

 soil for, 398 



greenhouse requirements, 398 

 seed sowing in, 399 



marker for, in green- 

 house, illustrated, 



395 



ventilation, 399 

 insects and diseases, 400 

 marketing, 400 

 profits, 401 

 varieties, 401 

 types, illustrated, 400 

 types of winter, illustrated, 401 



