Contents 



CHAPTER V 



PAGES 



Watee and Wateeing . 35^2 



Irrigation, 36 — Overhead irrigation, 37 — Surface 

 irrigation, 39 — Sub-irrigation, 40. 



CHAPTER VI 



Seeds and Seed-Sowing 43-51 



How to test a machine, 43 — Choosing the varieties, 44 

 — Quantity of seed to sow, 44 — Table, 45 — Seed-sow- 

 ing, 46 — How to select plants, 46 — Tropical seeds, 50. 



CHAPTER vn 



Planting ... 52-65 



Coldframes, 52 — Selection of a location, 52 — Con- 

 struction, 52 — Hotbeds, 55 — Plant-sheds, 67 — Seed- 

 beds and plant^beds, 58 — Preparation of the land, 59 — 

 Well-drained land, 60 — Clearing the land, 61 — Plow- 

 ing, 61 — Transplanting, 62 — Number of plants to the 

 acre, 65. 



CHAPTER Vin 

 Pests and Diseases . ... . . 66-77 



Poisonous insecticides, 67 — Paris green, 67 — Arsenate 

 of lead, 67 — Zinc arsenite, 68 — Contact insecticides, 68 



— Kerosene emulsion, 68 — Whale-oil soap or fish-oil 

 soap, 69 — Soda-sulfur spray, 69 -~ Tobacco-sulfur spray, 

 69 — Commercial lime-sulfur solution, self -boiled, 70 



— Bean spray, 71 — Miscible oils, 71 — Poison bait, 72 



— Gaseous insecticides, 72 — Bisulfide of carbon, 72 — 

 Formalin, 72 — Fungicides, 73 — Bordeaux mixture, 73 — 

 Ammoniacal solution of copper carbonate, 75 — Spray- 

 ing machines, 75 — Dry materials, 76. 



