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Fig. 340. Eow of Commission Merchants Near Harlem Market 1216 



Fig. 341. Conserving Moisture by Thorough Tillage 1218 



Fig. 342. Overhead Irrigation 1220 



Fig. 343. Typical Long Island Market Wagon 1222 



Fig. 344. Mature Carrots in Cold Frames 1223 



Fig. 345. Carrots Matured in Cold Frames in the Fall 1224 



Fig. 346. Parsley in Cold Frames in Autumn 1225 



Fig. 347. Barrels of Kraut Keady for Shipment 1226 



Fig. 348. Barrels of Tomatoes in a Brine Solution 1227 



Fig. 349. Betailers' Push Carts on the Streets of New York 1228 



Fig. 350. Getting Eeady for Market 1233 



Fig. 351. Vegetable Washing Machine 1234 



Fig. 352. Map Showing Important Areas of Muck Soils 1242 



Fig. 353. Plank Drag 1248 



Fig. 354. A Canning Outfit in Operation 1258 



Fig. 355. Everyone Becomes Useful in the Canning Season 1259 



Fig. 356. Steam Pressure Canner with Firebox 1260 



Fig. 357. The Clothes Boiler Used as a Sterilizer 1261 



Fig. 358. Capping a Can with Bound Capping Steel 1262 



Fig. 359. Tipping a Can with Solder 1263 



Fig. 360. Girls of the Neighborhood Were Called in to Help 1264 



Fig. 361. Demonstrating the Canning of Apples 1268 



Fig. 362. The Finished Product 1270 



Fig. 363. A Club Member 's Fruit Closet 1271 



Fig. 364. Canning Club Exhibits in the Farm Bureau Tent 1272 



Fig. 365. Type of Greenhouse with Which Gardeners Begin Vegetable 



Forcing 1277 



Fig. 366. A One-Acre Eange at Irondequoit 1278 



Fig. 367. A Modern Vegetable House 1279 



Fig. 368. Planting Lettuce in a Large Commercial House 1281 



Fig. 369. Cucumbers Trained on an Overhead Trellis 1283 



Fig. 370. A Greenhouse Crop of Tomatoes at Irondequoit. 1285 



Fig. 371. String Beans and Carrots from the Home Garden 1289 



Fig. 372. Three Types of Carrots 1290 



Fig. 373. Harvesting Snap Beans 1293 



Fig. 374. Celery Blanched by Means of Boards 1295 



Fig. 375. Kesult of Planting Unreliable Seed 1305 



Fig. 376. Variation in Germination of Jersey Wakefield Cabbage Seed. 1307 

 Fig. 377. Variation in Yield of Strains of Charleston Wakefield 



Cabbages 1308 



Fig. 378. Tomatoes Grown on Stakes 1315 



Fig. 379. Simplest Form of Manure Hotbed 1317 



Fig. 380. A Cloth-Covered Cold Frame 1318 



Fig. 381. Eoot Knot of Greenhouse Cucumbers 1324 



Fig. 382. Asparagus Bust 1325 



Fig. 383. Bean Anthracnose 1326 



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