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and so on until the bed is finished. Care should be taken 

 to use plenty of water. Then cover the bed with the sheet 

 and allow ' it to remain for three days ; after three days, 

 allow sunshine at least every other day. One watering 

 will do for tomatoes, but eggplant should be watered every 

 two days for a week after setting. Remember never to 

 transplant or set a plant in the field until the ground is 

 warm. Never set when a cold spell is coming. You should 

 keep in touch with the weather man. ~No plant will rx>t at 

 a low temperature, and if a cold spell should come on im- 

 mediately after setting your plant will suffer because they 

 are unable to take root. In the case of eggplant and pep- 

 pers, at the transplanting, commencing a week afterward, 

 take a long, sharp tool and keep the ground between the 

 rows opened as deep as or deeper than the roots of the 

 plants. This is not necessary with tomatoes. However 

 the soil should be kept well stirred. When the plants are 

 ready to go in the field, they may be taken up witJi a 

 prong hoe in order to save all the roots possible. Other 

 than tomatoes and eggplant it is hardly advisable to trans- 

 pi nnt in the bed. 



SEED SOWING. 



In sowing seed, to insure a stand, three things are re- 

 quired: Vitality of seed, proper temperature, and suffi- 

 cient moisture. As before stated some seed require a 

 higher temperature to germinate than others. You can 

 plant deeper when the ground is warm than when cold^ 

 therefore no standard depth of planting can be given. 

 When the ground is at a normal, temperature, planting 



