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Show GETTING BIG SQUASH Successful Method for Raising Vegetable for Family Use. Excellent and Old-Fashioned Way of Raising Cucumbers and Melons in Kitchen Garden Moisture Supplied Sup-plied in Dry Season. For a number of years I successfully success-fully followed this method In raising squash for family use: Make a compost com-post cheap lr a corner of the garden with a mixture of rich loam, well rotted manure from stable and hogpen, hog-pen, and a generous percentage of hen manure. There should be several sev-eral large wagon loads of the compost, and It should be raked over and over until all parts are thoroughly pulverized pulver-ized and blended. Level the heap to a circular mound, say two feet deep and ten or twelve fet In diameter, the top flat. Cover with two inches of loam, and plant tho seed rather more quickly than in the ordinary hill or drill. There should be plenty of space around the bed for tho vines to spread freely. I never failed to secure a healthy gTowth of plants, which, when well started were thinned so as to leave 0 fr V; - vli; -i I ' i U Boston Marrow Squash. only the most vigorous, and these always al-ways produced a good crop, writes Clinton Vannah in the Orange Judd Farmer. An excellent old-fashioned way to raise cucumbers and melons in the kitchen garden Is to dig a circular hole in the ground from six to ten Inches deep and three feet across. In the center of the excavation place on end a nail cask with boHh ends knocked out Then fill the space around the outside of the cask with a compost of good loam and rotted stable manure, or droppings from the hennery well pulverized and thoroughly thorough-ly mixed with the earth. Cover the compost with two or three Inches of loam, and plant the Beed near the cask. Fill the cask with muck, or light manure from the horse stable, that will hold moisture like a sponge. In case of drouth, water may be poured Into the cask freely, It will not evaporate evap-orate readily, and gives a gradual supply to the plants as they require. Small holes should be bored through the staves of the cask to allow outward out-ward seepage of water. If the ground iB naturally inclined to dampness no excavation below the level should be made. Place the cask on the surface and build a mound of compost around it. To give the vines fredom of growth the casks should be set eight or nine feet apart eacQ way. Disinfecting Cow Stables. Disinfectants cannot destroy germs If they do not come into direct contact with them. Disinfectants should be applied in sufficient quantity to thoroughly thor-oughly saturate the surfaces, after the adhering particles of dirt are re-' moved. In the application of the disinfectant dis-infectant in cow stables it is well to use a broom or stiff brush and thoroughly thor-oughly scrub the floor, feed troughs, stanchions, and lower parts of the walls. The solution can be applied to the ceilings and upper parts of the side walls with a spray pump, and must be carried Into any crevice and recess into which dirt can enter. |