. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. 2o8 the large commercial areas. It consists of a broad steel point which runs under the hills, lifting the tubers and tops and carrying them upward and back- ward over a screen of steel bars. The earth is per- mitted to fall through these
. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. 2o8 the large commercial areas. It consists of a broad steel point which runs under the hills, lifting the tubers and tops and carrying them upward and back- ward over a screen of steel bars. The earth is per- mitted to fall through these bars while the potatoes are carried to the rear of the machine and dropped on the ground. The method of gathering the po- tatoes from the field is largely a local practice, de- pending to a considerable extent upon whether the potatoes are to be marketed direct from the field or stored and also upon the methods of digging era-. AN INEXPENSIVE POTATO DIGGER ployed. A common practice in many localities is to gather in crates in which they are taken either to storage or to the car for shipping. The half-bushel split baskets are frequently used for gathering, being emptied directly into the gunny sack in which they are to be shipped. The truck garden crop of the South is nearly always shipped in ventilated barrels, the top being covered with burlap tightly stretched under the top hoop. Sacks are sometimes employed and the crop sometimes shipped in bulk. The latter methods are more common with the late crops handled in the mature state. Sorting and grading are always practiced to a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Vernon Hayes, 1877-. New York, Orange Judd company
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