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Carrots are used both for table vegetables and for flavoring soups and stews. They are of the easiest culture. The seed is sown in rich, mellow soil, preferably with a few radish seeds to mark the rows and kept cleanly cultivated until they get a good start. If sown as soon as the ground can […]

A warm, sandy soil made rich with stable manure, thoroughly composted, is generally considered the genial home of the cantaloupe, so far as regards the production of a crop. But quality is quite as important a consideration as quantity. To produce a large crop is an easy matter, but to produce melons of high flavor […]

We usually plant six or eight acres of cabbage of several varieties each year,” says H. A. Souther-land of Ontario county, New York. ” During the last five years we have found Burpee’s All Head earlier and Burpee’s Danish better than any we have ever tried. We have also grown All Seasons, but it gives […]

The importance of having the garden well drained is not half appreciated. Of course, if the land is naturally Well drained there would be no necessity of doing the thing artificially. But if the land is low or pockety, it is likely to need draining. While water is necessary to crop growing, excess of water […]

Anyone who can grow cabbage can grow Brussels sprouts. Everyone who likes cabbage will like Brussels sprouts better. But the same carelessness that produces woody, rank flavored cabbage will have a like effect on Brussels sprouts. People who give the plant a fair trial in the garden and the kitchen soon swell the ranks of […]

Beets are very readily grown on almost any soil, not too sandy nor too heavy, preferably a very rich, well-worked and deep loam. For earliest use the round forms should be chosen. Of these there are many that Are of quick growth. They are planted in rows 16 inches apart, as soon as the soil […]

L. C. Seal of Indiana discusses bean growing as follows : ” Did your young bean vines ever promise well, then suddenly yellow up and, perhaps, die, and you could not account for it? Maybe you hoed them one time when their foliage was wet. You should not have done so. Never touch snap beans […]

According to W. G. Dawson of Dorchester county, Maryland, ” Asparagus, when properly grown and carefully packed, is a good paying crop, and probably the most certain of all in the perish-able list. This is because the supply rarely* exceeds the demand, asparagus being used so extensively in its fresh state and for canning. As […]

The tubers of this sunflower-like plant are far less highly esteemed than they should be in home gardens. The plants will thrive in any good soil without any cultivation. They need only be held within bounds. Each year they will reproduce from the small tubers left in the ground at digging. A plot to feet […]

In the storage of vegetables for farm use the main requirements are:’ Correct and uniform temperature, darkness, and the proper amount of moisture. These essentials can best be obtained and maintained in what is commonly known as the root cellar; that is, a cellar covered with earth. Being entirely covered, the outside temperature does not […]