the member# do. 
Mtnnik Palmer:— You ask what kind of 
vegetables is best l or young people to culti¬ 
vate, and 1 reply cabbage, onion# and peas. 
Last year I raised onions, lettuce, radishes, 
beets and parsnips. My lettuce and radishes 
I sold. Father says i may have us much 
ground for vegetables a# lean cultivate, if it 
is ten acres. I would like to ask the names of 
some of the earliest radishes. 
apart. Cabbage we sow in boxes In the house 
or hot-bed, and transplant iu the Spring after 
all danger of frost is over. Tomatoes we treat 
in about the same manner. Cucumbers we 
put in hills about four feet apart each way. 
Melons are planted three to four feet apart. 
Ezra J. Morse:—I think if 1 could have 
but a few kinds of vegetables i would prefer 
cabbage, corn and beans. To have good cab¬ 
bage the seeds should be sown in bed# or boxes 
take pride in it, not being satisfied with any¬ 
thing short of the best success! This is the 
surest way to bring the vegetable garden into 
belter repute among the busy farmers who 
think they have no time to do such work only 
in a busty, “go as-you-please” manner. After 
the young farmer knows what kinds of soil, 
what fertilizers, what cultivation his vegeta¬ 
bles need, he will not be long without bountr 
ful supplies both for the table and the market. 
Tail Scarlet Turnip, Earliest Scarlet Erfurt., 
Olive-shaped Scarlet, are early varieties. 
H. J. Alford: —1 am in favor of onion, beet, 
lettuce and bean culture. Onions need a rich 
soil and good cultivation. I sow the seeds in 
drills about five or six inches apart. I sow 
lettuce as early as possible after the ground is 
in good order. We like the Early Curled 
Simpson and Tennis Ball. 
George Mason:— Melons are my favorite 
garden fruit. 1 choose a light, dry sandy 
soil, and manure it well with old rotten ma¬ 
nure. I plant the seed in hills five or six 
inches apart each way, scattering a dozen 
seeds in the hill. W hen there is no longer uuy 
danger of bugs, thin out to three or four 
plants. I find that pinching off the end of the 
main shoot, when there are four or five rough 
leaves, will cause a better growth of the lateral 
shoots. Melons are ripe when the stem will 
cleave from the fruit. I prefer the Cassaba 
muskmolon and the Gipsy and Cuban Queen 
watermelon. 
G«o. Mudge:—I think the best vegetables 
for our climate are, of cabbage, Early Win- 
ningstadt and Filderkraut. We bow them 
ending April 8. 
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Johnny Young, Alfred C. Tapp, Ada Shali¬ 
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Bertha Chapman, Edward Pallor, Ella Brad¬ 
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Fulton, W. E. Brown, Florence Marshall, 
Thomas Marshall, Norman Ferguson, Chu#. 
Chambers, Ella Chambers, Dora Barnard, 
Beatrice Schwartz, Mignonette Schwartz, 
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Conard, Clarence Nutting, Ellen Bounell, 
Job. Story, Guy Story, Raymond Story, 
Johnny Wolfenden, Annie Davis, J. A. Spit- 
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Bushoug, Caddie Reed, Alice Hughes, Julia 
Jackson. Jus. C. Lee, Allio McMillan, Jessie 
Kilbora, J. D. White, C. B. White, F. E. 
White, Artie Alford, Jeanette Frank, E. F. 
Mahan, C. E. Papworth, Lawrence Freeman, 
Walter Franks, Ernest Franks, Alice Wolfen- 
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McGregor, Edna McGregor, Arthur Herbert, 
transplanted. They need a. great deal of cul¬ 
tivating; the best time to hoe them i# before 
sunrise in the morning. It is necessary to 
keep a sharp watch over them or the worms 
will get in the heart and eat them so they will 
not head. Com should bo planted as soon as 
the ground becomes warm and dry. The old 
Judian rule was to plant corn as soon as the 
leaves of the oak tree were as big as a squir¬ 
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to most any part of the country. The cut¬ 
worm sometimes oats off the young shoots. 
Beans can 1*3 planted in hills or drills it makes 
but little diil’erence which. Beans should not 
be hoed while wet. 
Walter Arbott: —I have a small piece of 
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1 would like to have the chairman or some of 
the members of the Club tell me how to pro¬ 
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light und well pulverized, the object being to 
get a largo yield of small onions. When the 
ground is prepared mark out the bed in rows 
nine inches or a foot upart, und sow' the seed 
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SIXTH REGULAR DISCUSSION. 
Topic: "The Best Vegetables for Young 
Folks to Cultivate, and how to Cul¬ 
tivate them.” 
The sixth regular meeting of the Club was 
called to order by 11 ncle Mirk, lie remarked 
that the farm garden, though too often slight¬ 
ed, i# a necessity to every farm hous hold, and 
that it is worthy a farmer’s best attention. 
Many think if a few minutes’ labor be given to 
the garden before breakfast, or at noon, or 
any time field work does not demand atten¬ 
tion, it will be sufficient, but they are not the 
ones who enjoy tho eating of the best vegeta¬ 
bles. Whnt they do have i# but a poor apol¬ 
ogy for what they might have. If the young 
people can be brought up to have a care for 
the “ fruits of the garden’’ and a love for their 
cultivation, a great point, will be gained. In 
fact, if the care of the garden were given over 
entirely to some young farmers, the table 
would not lack a bountiful supply of vegeta¬ 
bles in their season. Young folks should take 
a nrido in this matter, and no doubt many of 
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Ii'.rln Kfnrlct. Tnrntn White 
is desired, but my experience has been that 
a good early or medium variety may be se¬ 
lected, and plantings made at intervals of a 
couple of weeks or so apart, thus causing 
them to mature in succession. With many 
of our common vegetables this method can be 
practiced successfully. 
Mollik Weep: — I have never tried raising 
but two kinds of vegetables—beans and onions. 
Beans were a total failure last year on account 
of wet weather setting in just when they were 
nearly ripe, and they rotted. I have raised 
onions tor three years and always have good 
luck. I plant the onions and raise sets to sell. 
1 hoe them twice and pull tho weeds out of 
the rows, and they don’t need any more care 
till they are ripe. I pick the sets and spread 
them in a dry place to cure. Keep them in 
boxes up stairs till Spring and then sell them. 
Sets have never been less than 10 cents a quart 
and last Spring they were 35 cents a quart 
here in Mirubile, Mo. My brother and I are 
going lo pJautngood mauy this Spring. 
Norman Fkhuuhon:— The next thing after 
selecting good seed is planting and cultiva¬ 
tion. Good crops depend largely on good cul¬ 
tivation. Tho soil should bo rich, light and 
loamy. I think spading the vegetable beds is 
about the best way to get the ground in good 
condition. Of course, in a large garden the 
plow must be used. The beds should be nicely 
smoothed oil with a garden rake, thou marked 
out and pi uted. Here we drill peas iu rows 
about two feet apart, and bush the climbing 
kinds when they are ubout four or five inches 
hiirh Let,I.nee vve now in rows eight, inches 
the table. Generally the melons are looked 
forward to as the greatest feast of the season. 
The Early Jersey and Black Spanish water¬ 
melons do well. The Surprise is the first and 
best in the line of mmkmelons. With re¬ 
gard to the best kinds of vegetables to grow, I 
think it is best to have several kinds of each 
variety. Cabbages, it planted with carrots, 
are little troubled with worms. 
Henry Williams:— Although 1 am fond of 
cultivating nearly all kinds of vegetables, I 
like especially to grow asparagus. I don’t 
think it is such a difficult matter as some 
suppose to grow this vegetable. I make the 
soil rich and mellow, and sow the seed about 
12 or 15 inches apart. As soon as the young 
plants appear, begin to weed, and keep the bed 
clean. The plants should be thinned out to 
six inches iu the row. The following Spring 
set out the plants in the permanent, bed of 
deep, rich soil, putting them in rows three to 
four feet apart, and 18 inches apart in tlie 
row, for garden culture. All 1 want is rich 
soil, clean cultivation and plenty of room, to 
have a good growth of asparagus. 
Uncle Mark:— Our topic being on tho best 
vegetables lor young people to cultivate, I will 
olfer a suggestion. Tho object that the boy or 
girl should have in cultivating a little vegeta¬ 
ble garden, is not so much to see how large a 
quantity can tie raised, as to note the habits of 
growth of different kinds of vegetables, make 
a study of their want#, see how they make 
seed, learn when to plant and when to harvest, 
and while cultivating them, to nourish in 
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beans, the Black Wax and Golden Wax are 
the best varieties ; beets, Dark Bed Egyptian, 
Early Bassano. How in drills a# soon as the 
ground i# warm enough ; carrots, Improved 
Long Orange, White Belgian—cultivate the 
same as beets ; lettuce, Hanson and Early 
Tennislmll—sow as soon as the ground is 
warm and keep the soil mellow ; tomatoes, the 
Trophy auil Acme—sow in a box iu tho house 
about the middle of March and transplant as 
soon as the ground gets warm enough; squashes, 
Summer Crook Neck and Hubbard—plant iu 
hills four or five feet apart putting four or 
five seeds in a hill, after the danger of the 
striped bugs is over thin out to about three ; 
keep the ground mellow. 
Uncle Mark: — I confess to having n 
“ peculiar weakness” for a good dish of peas in 
Summer—in fact several dishes—but 1 never 
di<l fancy picking peas from vines that were 
“ scrawling” about in the dirt, unsupported by 
brush or stakes. The vines should be care¬ 
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the Champion of England. 
Kurd Moore :—Some people recommend 
sowing different varieties of vegetables, that 
is, early, medium and late, where a succession 
to the acre. Keep the weeds down, tho same 
as you would iu the regular crop. The “ sets” 
will bo ready to take out of the ground in 
August and le .ve on the rows to dry. When 
dry spread them upon a loft, and turn them 
occasionally or they may rot. Onion “sets 
are planted in rows about one foot apart, and 
three inches apart iu the row. 
M. Nellie Baldwin:- l really enjoy the 
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have nice fresh vegetables for tho table. A 
few years ago 1 sold three ilollurs worth of 
onion sets or buttons which I raised on a plot 
six by eight feet. Of the newer kinds of veg¬ 
etables, we are particularly pleased with the 
New White Apple Tomato, Mexican Sweet 
Corn and Surprise Musk Melon. 1 wish every 
boy and girl could have a little garden plot, 
1 know of no better way to interest them iu 
work, which every child should learn at un 
ourly age. 
Hulda Lick. —I think vegetables should lie 
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There is nothing that a person will get so 
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