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Show Garden Farm Notes Kaffir corn makes good silage. Keep the manure spreader busy. Why not try a patch of alfalfa this season? Plow the garden deep when you plow It. A true saying: "A good garden is half the living." Flax is a plant that does well on a varoety of soils. The well drained garden has many things in its favor. Millet hay, to give the best results, must not get too ripe. A good gardener will not be content with raising one crop a year. The careful stockman gives his manure ma-nure spreader daily exercise. Grasshoppers may be materially decreased de-creased by winter or early spring disk-ing. disk-ing. Rhubarb is one of the standard garden gar-den crops in the vicinity of large cities. The green food problem In winter isn't much of a problem if there is any alfalfa hay on the place. All the kernels of an ear of corn are approximately of the same composition, composi-tion, but different ears vary considerably. consider-ably. Experienced onion growers do not advise nor follow the practice of planting plant-ing onions on raw or new land as a first crop. Consider the clovers. It often means the difference between failure and. success. suc-cess. The clovers are almost indispensable indispen-sable In the farm scheme. The sooner manure is spread in the field, the smaller the loss of fertility incurred and the smaller the amount of labor required to handle it. The common disk harrow is more generally used than any other implement imple-ment to culltvate alfalfa, and when properly adjusted does good work. |