Show alij squash vines I 1 not near J T J asks why his squash vino has no fruit set and the ciuc is ten feet long I 1 cin tell liim two years ago my farm was in iho hands of a tenant for a few months ho thought lie would raise a lot 0 habbard squashes ami froin with tho proceeds so lio cina cicil tho manure cellar upon two acres binl planted squash and certainly tended well ami hail enormous vines ho pointed to more than ono vino which ran thirty feet and over a long snakelike snake like coid which sec nd n d to want to go into the next field for an airing hilt I 1 observed nono but bialo blossoms upon tecc vines and very few fruit set upon any those which biad lateral shoots and ho retired from business in the end only with disgust vow I 1 have grown squash and melons for year and live among professional melon and squash growers who have learned to pinch in thee rampant shoots plants are climbers and he main shoot is naturally only tho supporter of alie fruit beading branches which arc alie literals laterals late rals this of course would be known to any person who considers knowingly tho nature of alie gourd bearing plants tho same year I 1 was growing in my garden and as my practice Is I 1 pinched the main vine ahrn vine froni alie next hill or at about four feet from its root immediately side shoots appeared and these boro female lion era abundantly when a fruit is set on a lateral shoot or two if the vine is strong alie end is pinched to strengthen the fruits md so we get squashes and melons in abundance this way while alie oilier way one would get only long trailing ropelike rope like barren vines with but a few fruits in selecting fruit for seed aliese taken from the literals laterals late rals should be saved now J T J will know why his lias set no fruit cor yew 1 |