Show preparing the garden any one who has a little patch of back yard can h have ave a vegetable garden this year by nil all means make the tha effort it can not only furnish you with delicious fresh vegetables but you will get health and pleasure plea aura out of 0 its caro care if your soil la Is sandy it will produce tho the early crops to great advantage and you can get radishes lettuce and similar vegetables several weeks ahead ot of your neighbor with a clay garden but the sandy soil does not stand tho the hot dry weather of the summer months as well as aa the clay or loam for this reason it Is usually desirable desi desirable ralle to cover a very sandy bandy plot with several inches of barnyard manure and loam or black muck soli soil to give it some body and moisture re retaining ta ining power this top crossing dr should bo be evenly spread on just before plowing in the spring and it should be b thoroughly turned under A loamy soil Is ideal for general garden crops the sandy loam being a little earlier and the tha day clay loata loam a little better in the hot weather we athor loam bolls 1 do not nead any other treatment than manure every other year aniess the location Is too wet it if this Is the case either surface or tile drainage will have bava to bo be installed in order to secure the b best results clay either blue yellow or red led Is about the toughest proposition the gardener has to tackle it possesses esBee plant food in abundance and can be made to bear profitably but it will need a lot of cultivation cultivation and treatment nt of various kinds before it can bo be handled with see case in the first place it must bo be lowed or spaded deeply in order to break up tho the solid texture of oc the soil largo large quantities of well rotted manuro manure containing considerable straw should bo be plowed under ave every year and at the same game time it will bo w well ell to plow under about two inches of sand band or sandy handy loam alter after the tha last crop has been ta taken kenoff jolt any portion of the garden in tho the tall fall sow the vacant ground to some last fast growing cover crop and turn it under just before frost cuts it down all of these factors will assist in loosening a heavy firm soil allowing better penetration ot of alrand water and reducing the tha tendency ot of the soil to form orra large hard blots clots dont strip tho the soil boll from a new garden turn it under by bi all means as aa it will malce make the texture of tho the soil boil very much better belter the greater the amount of decaying plant matter you can incorporate in the soli soil the better will vill be your crop plow or spade your garden as soon as the soil sell Is dry enough to scour off the tha plowshare elcel nicely JP plowing lowing bo be fore this will leavo leave we tho soil in a clod ded or condition and it will take a couple of years hard work to correct this mistake it the loll 1011 to la heavy with sandy or loamy molls bolls the time of plowing ts is not so BO important as they are not liable to form clode cloda and they can bo be plowed when much drier than a clay the owner of tho clay patch or the muck garden laas haa to be extremely sly careful regarding this important fec feature ture however after plowing the treatment of alt all kinds of soil BOH Is practically the idarae cultivate rake or harrow the toil foil until tho the surface which la Is known as aa the seed bod bed is as fine as you can poR possibly sIbly ket get it aho ho finer the better for all kinds of seed this is because the tha particles of soil can ant into closer physical touch with the little so seeds da and plant roots they hold held the soil water closer and make their food contents much more available for the tha roots |