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and as they do more damage to young plants than all the 

 other insects put together, I really think it is a good idea to 

 Ube it. Another point I should add here is never use 

 cotton seed meal as a fertilizer on any land that you wish 

 to grow plants on, as there is nothing the cut worm likes 

 better than cotton seed meal. If you wish to protect the 

 plants in cold weather drive a row of stakes down the 

 middle of the bed about five feet apart, having one at each 

 end. Run a heav}' wire on the top of these stakes, stretch- 

 uig it tight. Put up ten or twelve-inch boards, all round 

 the bed, stamling them on edge, and drive lod nails in them, 

 about e\'ery three feet. Stretch a cover of either canvas 

 or duck over the wire and fasten it to these nails by heavy 

 strings. 



DIRECTION.S FOR MAKING A HOT BED. 



The problem of raising plants in a hot bed need not 

 worry the trucker in the southern part of the State. In 

 the northern and central portions, such plants as tomatoes, 

 peppers and egg plants, when planted in November, Decem- 

 ber and Januar)', will have to be grown in hot beds. To 

 grow these plants in the southern portion of the State 

 during the months named, all that is necessary is to protect 

 the beds as advised in the article on seed beds. In selecting 

 a place for the hot bed, try to get a piece of medium high 

 land as it is necessary to dig a pit nine inches deep under the 

 bed. If the land is very low, first make up a bed about eight 

 feet wide and four feet longer than you wish to make the 

 hot bed, building the frame on top of this. Sash make the 

 best covering for this purpose. The frame should be as 

 wide as the sash are long, which is six feet. The length 

 of the frame depends upon the quantity of seed that are to 

 be planted. Make the bed as air tight as possible, running 

 It from east to west, and sloping it towards the south. The 



