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Watering Apparatus For Melons

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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A bulletin of the Georgia station on ■watermelous describes a simple method of rendering ooncentrated fertilizar assiniilable or available and preveutiug the hill from firiug. This is by the application of water artiflcially, when the raiufall proves insuffloient. For this purpose a joint of two inch terra cotta sewer pipe is perpendicularly sunk in the hill before planting to the depth of six or eight inches, bell upward, as indicated in the figure. The seeds are planted arotind the pipe and the stand subsequently thinned down to one vine, whose roots will eventually surround the bottom of the )ipe for quite a distauce in all direc;ions. The pipe itself should be filled with water late in the afternoon - every iay, if the weather is dry, or as often as may be fonud necessary. The continnous supply of moisture thus afforded vrill have a most noticeable effect by renderiog every partióle of plant food within reach capable of assiiiiilation. Ordinary drain tile may be used in )lace of sewer pipe.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News