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Show ture, Washington, D. C.'forvany of these farmers' bulletins, which it believes will help, and which may be had free: Farmer's bulletin 1044, the City Home Gar den; Fanner's Bulletin 937, the Farm Garden in the North; Farmer's Bulletin 856, the Control of Diseases and Insect Enemies of the Home Vegetable Vege-table Garden; Farmer's Bulletin 884, Saving Vegetable Seeds for the Home and Market Garden. Gar-den. ' - I For Good Gardens VV7ASHINGTON mail sacks, loaded with the ' " 1921 consignment of free government seeds, are speeding over the rails to almost each of the most remote townships in the country. More money is being spent by the government to supply these seeds this year than ever before. Seeds that cost nearly $400,000 are being distributed for . free trial. Seedhouses are being besieged by an army for catalogs. Already the windows of the corner cor-ner . grocery store have blossomed with the big seed boxes containing their thousands of packets. The lowly bean is next to the giant crimson tomato packet, and the gaudy green lettuce seed flirts desperately with the radish. Your government aims to aid you in making a success of the backyards garden. It wants to help you now before you've turned a spade in the loam. If you care for information on garden- . ing it asks you to write the secretary of agricul- . |