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care not to give the melon too much water 
after it is once started and the young 
melon is well formed. This is not true of 
cantaloupes although cantaloupes and 
watermelons are frequently grown on the 
same ground or in adjacent rows. On 
the other hand it probably takes twice 
or three times as much water to grow 
onions as to grow watermelons. They 
need more than is usually given to the 
trees, while the melons need less, conse- 
quently if care is observed to give the 
onions enough water the treés are not 
likely to suffer. 
Potatoes 
Potatoes are easily grown and are a 
fairly profitable crop, yielding sometimes 
as high as $200 or $300 per acre. The 
price of potatoes fluctuates greatly. We 
would especially recommend potatoes if 
the land has been in alfalfa or clover 
previous to setting the orchard. It is not 
uncommon for potatoes to bring $30 per 
ton one year, and the next year scarcely 
pay the cost of growing. The rule is 
that if potatoes are very high in price 
one year they will be low the next year 
and not a profitable crop. Many old farm- 
ers say, “When seed is cheap, plant po- 
tatoes; when it is high, sell your seed.” 
A Heavy Crop of Vegetables is Permissible in a Young Orchard Where Proper 
Attention is Given to Fertilization. 
This rule is not infallible, for we have 
seen it fail; but it is so nearly true that 
in an average of ten years, the profits to 
the growers who follow it will be much 
larger than to those who plant without 
any observation as to whether seed is 
high or low. 
Tomatoes 
Tomatoes are a very profitable crop in 
soils and under conditions to which they 
are adapted. In some countries’ they 
blight to such an extent that the returns 
are uncertain, but where. they can be 
grown successfully and without too much 
risk, and close to the market, they yield 
large returns. We have known in excep- 
tional cases profits of $600 to be gathered 
from one acre of tomatoes. Again, we 
have known them to fail entirely, so that 
the profits may be estimated at from noth- 
ing to $600 per acre. How to prevent to- 
mato blight will be treated in the article 
on tomatoes. 
Cucumbers 
Perhaps no truck crop will bring larger 
returns for the given amount of labor 
than cucumbers, provided they are grown 
sufficiently near the market to be picked 
and mirketed every day. One man mar- 
keted in one year from one acre of land 
