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troublesome. Use Bordeaux mixture and spray 

 every ten days to two weeks. 



Watch eggplants for potato bugs. I always 

 pick them off, for I am rather timid about using 

 poison on anything but root crops when the vege- 

 tables are about ripe and ready for use. 



Begin to Save Manure Now; In fact do this as 

 soon as you gather any crops from which you get 

 waste parts. Pea vines, turnip and carrot tops, 

 waste lettuce leaves and all such refuse (unless 

 you can feed it to hogs) will increase the value 

 of your manure when well mixed and rotted. It 

 will be worth while to make some sort of permanent 

 manure pit, which will serve also as a rubbish pile. 

 Such a pit can be built in one corner of the garden, 

 and will pay well for the room it takes. If possible 

 lay a cement floor or make a pit a couple of feet 

 deep lined with concrete. If this is impossible, 

 much valuable material is likely to leach away. 

 Enclose or roof it in some way, so that the rain 

 and snow cannot beat in upon the compost. Add 

 manure to the pile whenever you can get it, also 

 sods, lawn cuttings and now and then a little loam. 

 If you have access to liquid manure from the horse 

 or cow stables, add it plentifully to the vegetable 

 matter. You can prevent any odor from this pit, 

 by covering any fresh additions of manure or re- 

 fuse that will quickly decay, with a litttle sawdust, 

 loam, or straw bedding — whatever comes easiest 

 to hand and is dry and fresh. It, too, will break 

 down later in the mass of manure. 



Very possibly an excellent source of manure 



