| Show the garden if there is any or pleasure sn cultivating a garden it ii to bo found in doing it well every well constituted farmer must feel at all times a dissatisfaction with the imperfect manner in which he feels almost compelled to do much of his farm work lie knows that there is a limit to what is intense culture in growing farm crops beyond which cost will exceed market value lie often is conscious that a little more manure another harrowing or rolling a piece he is preparing for grain would improve its but he mistrusts that lie would not be able to get back the extra cost in selling the crop few carmera are entirely satisfied with the way they do their work on the farm it docs not meet their ideal of high farming hut IQ his small garden plot ho can more nearly satisfy his of good tillage lie can apply all the manure lie thinks will be lie may dig as deep work up us line rake off as ih as be wishes and when bis plants come up bo can thin them out to just the distance apart thit he thinks they will need to inako the most rapid healthful growt li and lie can stir the soil often as he thinks it will do any good and he can pull every weed leaving nothing in the clean mellow saili to the most rapid growth of the plants to a thorough radical man we say is a great pleasure in doing work in this perfect way and the time lie spend working in his garden h a season of enjoyment something similar to aliat an amateur artist experiences in his studio is a farmer goina to land time to do his garden tillage so through the time required to till well 1 few square rods of garden is not long if it is only done in season do not allow the surface to become hardened or the weeds to get started stir alic surface and clean out the weeds it can easily be done with a steel rake and it is sur a breadth of suffice sur fice a annii can do in an hour before breakfast or after supper make alic garden sufficiently attractive and lliorca will be volunteer from alic nursery and from the parlor all will arnit i in the delightful employment r jhc groat reason eliy the garden s often such n dread to alio farmer js because work therein is put oft until you cint acu the weeds from alic useful plants when you have to bund down to earth mhd carefully out the weeds when they have so rooted that they will acar up alic good plants with them then cleaning the garden becomes a slow tedious altogether unsatisfactory labor calculated to repel all we do not hesitate to say that if every farmer will utilize his spare moments arrange his work to best advantage and promptly to his garden when his work will be lhost can find the time to doit however pressing may be ruml bione |
