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Show Garden Farm Notes Keep 'weeds from going to seed. Plant salsify (vegetable oyster) for next spring. Don't try to save money by buying buy-ing cheap seed. Farm tests are worth more than all the theories. Don't sow alfalfa seed on very recently re-cently plowed land. ' Continue the cultivation, and keep up the fight against weeds. It is none too early to commence plowing for the 1913 crops. Guernsey cattle are prime favorites in the dairy sections of the west. No animal on the farm should suffer from hunger, thirst or cold." There never were better opportunities oppor-tunities in vegetable garden than today. to-day. Build a silo and save much of the fodder that would otherwise go to waste. Go after the extra strawberry vines and cut them out. Do not be afraid to slash them. Beet greens are extremely edible at eight weeks of age, even if the roots are only nubbins. Two of the best acreage-saving money-making propositions up to the farmers today are silage and alfalfa. Stormy days should not be idle days on the farm. Look about and see if you cannot find some profitable work. If you intend to allow that second crop of clover to be plowed under, it will not hurt to pasture it from this on. Set out celery plants which are to be used -for a late crop, and bank tho plants which were set out in June or July. Now the boys are looking forward with keen anticipation to thn wir-.ter at the agricultural college. Do not disappoint them. A thrifty farmer can well afford tr speud a decent sum on good pain! with which to brighten up tho build lngs about the place. |