OF ONE ACRE. 
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much advanced by growing radishes, lettuce, beets, 
etc., to maturity under the glass. 
In making the hotbed, dig a trench a few inches 
short of six feet in width, or as wide as the sashes 
will cover, about two feet in depth and as long as the 
combined width of the number of sashes which you 
wish to use. This is then to be boarded up with 
rough boards, but they should be neatly joined and 
plastering laths or building paper tacked over the 
Illustration showing the manner of making the hotbed when sunk below the 
surface of the ground. 
cracks, so as not to waste the heat. The back or north 
side of this frame should be 6 or 8 inches higher 
than the front, so that the rain may run off the sashes. 
The sashes held at an angle in this manner will also 
receive more sunlight for the front part of the bed 
than if front and back were level. The whole frame 
of the bed should be banked round with the dirt 
thrown out, or better with fresh stable manure, which 
