
CARE OF PLANTS ON ARRIVAL—As soon as your plants come, take them 
out of the crates and set them out. If not ready to set, trench them out in soft 
mud, cutting the strings and spreading the plants. Keep the roots moist and the 
tops dry. 
CULTURE—CABBAGE, COLLARD, BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER— 
Prepare land with one thousand pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer in three foot rows. 
Set plants 15 to 18 inches in the row, which requires about ten thousand plants 
to the acre. These plants are frostproof, and will usually stand a temperature of 
ten degrees below freezing. Set the plants in the soil up to the bud and water. 
For sucking insects spray with Blackleaf 40 or dust with Rotenone. For leaf 
eating insects dust with calsium arsenate or 5% DDT dust. 
CULTURE — ONIONS —Onions are frostproof and can stand a temperature 
ten degrees below freezing. Prepare land in two foot rows using one thousand 
pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. Set plants 4 to 5 inches apart in the row, 
which requires 50 to 60 thousand plants to the acre. Harvest when the tops dry 
and cure for storage. Dust for onion thrip with 5% DDT or Benzine Hexachloride. 
CULTURE — LETTUCE — Prepare land in two foot rows using one thousand 
pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. Set plants 12 inches apart in the row, which 
will require twenty thousand plants to the acre. These plants will stand ten 
degrees below freezing, and should be set early enough to head before hot weather. 
CULTURE — TOMATO — Prepare land in four foot rows, using 600 lbs. of 
4-12-6 fertilizer to the acre. Set plants up to the first leaf three feet apart in 
the row, which requires 3,500 plants to the acre. Will stand no frost. For insects, 
fungous and bacterial diseases spray every 10 days with Bordeaux Mixture, or 
dust with 7% metallic Tri-Basic Copper Sulphate and 20% calsium arsenate. 
CULTURE—PEPPER AND EGGPLANT—These plants will not stand any 
frost. Prepare land in three foot rows using 800 lbs. of 4-12-6 fertilizer to the 
acre. Set plant up to the first leaf two feet apart in the row, which requires 7,500 
plants to the acre. Dust Eggplant every 10 days with 20% arsenate dust for 
potato bugs. 
CULTURE — SWEET POTATO —Prepare land in 3% foot rows, using 800 
to 1,000 Ibs. of 4-8-8 fertilizer to the acre, and throw up 8 inch ridges on the 
fertilizer. Set plants after danger of frost is over, 12 to 15 inches apart, which 
requires 11,000 plants to the acre. Harvest just before frost kills the vines. 
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