| Show THE FARMERS GARDEN GARDENA A good garden should be the and delight of every farmer It brings bringa health happiness and saves money and rim if managed In a methodical anti and bu busi business l nes ness Ilku manner can be made the tho sQuire of larger than any other homo acre Tho Tue following timely lately notes note on the tho garden operations are taken treats from the garden special of the Ito Irac heal Farmer which baa many man con coil from from successful gardeners re cc with helpful suggestions suggestion All the tho waiters wiltern unite In emphasizing tho Im un Importance of good soil for tile tho garden which If possible should have havo n it south southern era ern exposure antI be located conveniently near the tio house n ns possible but protected trout from the depredations of or the thu poultry try A deep rich well drained loam nat naturally containing clay sand saud lime organic matter In natural proportions Is the Ideal soil but as comparatively few locations contain nil these e essentials tse must make moke the hue best selection bit bk and by careful culture Incorporate those features Sandy Pandy soil noil while re most quickly will not carry vegetation through the continual growth without artificial ails aids Those These may be supplied by liberal surface dressings dressing of land Printer paster ashes arid and fine rich barnyard manure Start all early plants in Plant these about March 1 transplant to cold frames and pet m t out in the iso got gar den When all danger of frost Is past Later vegetables plant ns as soon as its tutu tho if l round is In suitable condition com Cam commence mence cultivating as soon ns as possible and frequently and especially after heavy rains as soon na as tIm tho ground Is lit fit Dont Dant let the surface bake The equipment of tools should bu be complete and amid of the tue very ery best anti and ready to ue use when needed Time Pinto saved In iii money earned Dont Waste saito It with wills poor tools and not half enough of them Item at that Tim The Planet Jr double wheel hoe hoo with drill combined Is capable of to so many that consider It Indispensable A seed H is also a ut garden necessity arid and in n a small sinai garden the Anne Aime price lurico M 1 will ili stise many maui times its cost A spring tooth weeder hand seeders trowels hoes spades rakes forks wheelbarrow garden lines ansi and sprayer are aro all need cd ed to accomplish the isa best belt results Last but bv by no means least the lie hotbed rind cold frame must be provided for Do Donot Donot not omit these oven even though you can only start with one or two sashes You will add more anti and wonder why you went vent to CO long hang without To get Iso tho greatest good out of the garden nt at the least expense In labor abandon the old weed seeded and garden and go Into the open field anti and make a new one planting everything In long tows and wide enough for horse culture Got a Planet Jr wheel line hoe and drill combined The drill puts In the tho seeds rapidly without that backbreaking baud haid work Cultivate vate ate between the th rows with a horse arid and then lien use the wheel hoe close clo to the plants Every farmer who puts In a garden now ness should have such a tool Put In early earI arid and medium and late pens peas at the same samp time that Is plant all at once early earl and nt at least four Incises Inches deep This Is far better than to sow BOW the mine caine variety at different times so as to have pens liens to eat for some time Plant sweet corn In tho ho same way early and medium and late being put In at same Fame time Put In considerable of the late say fay Evergreen anti and just before the first frost cut and shock what Is left ansI and It will keep fairly good for some Pome time longer Lima beans can be bo pulled poles anti and all stored un an under ander der a or a large tree perhaps rind and thi beans kept along for some sonso time Tomatoes may also be taken up bay leav leavIng Ing flome onie earth on roots and putting them In n a sited shed In Uio sunlight Soon nn early potatoes are dug one can get a horse hotte and Prepare preparo ground late cabbage celery etc etcor etcor or clover or oats and peas may b be souva to plow under which will bo be far better than to have hare the land Inns growing an ripening weeds weed which was sins the case cas casIn In the old garden because wo we could not bother to spade up patches by hand The seeds aced of carrots parsnips tie etc atc very Mow elow to start and send genii up feeble sprouts Weeds are likely to ret ahead of them Help matters flatters by lowing them some seine early earl radish seed They grow quickly and brink birak th trust crust for the other plants anti show isow us where the row Is no so Me we can cult vate The secret of growing good vege vegetables vegetables tables Is to make them very quickly Hence use plenty of good fine manure and ashes and amid till thoroughly to check evaporation ns as ai as to keep weeds down U It Is easy to man manage manage age a garden put In OH an above and saud keep keepIt It clean while the old ones once went to grass anti and weeds A garden always In one place fenced In lii fruit trees and bu bushes he In It and atud neglected and crown up to weeds particularly the iso part of the season in IS a disgrace to a good farm Hut how we se see th them m A garden managed h here r suggested and taken rare care of would be an ornament to the lie farm The Thebus busy bus farmer non nowadays simply cannot find lute to cure care for a garden unless he hue systematically arranges to do roost most of the tho work Nork with a horse The farmers garden should contain all kindi of vegetables and of such va vs varieties ni a will till give a from the vets very earliest to the latest end and such as ore are best adapted to their own particular ular climate I The one most Important thing In Its making a garden Is good reed Farmers cannot b too strongly urged to tu shun all cheap float Dont Walt wait until the garden Is plowed fend ani then tend send the boy to the waist store storo to get your supply of needs for just ns as certain as you do tio you fall fail of best les resUlts Anti And dont depend on tho thu government free seeds one IB In Just ns a good anti and reliable ns an other Make out your our order early send It so sortie Homo otto ono of the thue many reliable seeds men and you will get the best seed need that money con buy Dont think that ono cute package of bet beet onion or tomato sped is just as good na as another for or It Is not any more titan than ono cow or one horse Is iii as 1113 good iod tw net another A permanent garden Is a necessity for asparagus rhubarb and arts many small entail seeds though most farmer now will prefer to leave leav it ft unfenced and amuil enclose lie tho poultry In large runs The rise vegetables for horse hone culture may better b hue raised In the tue potato Held haIti If convenient enough to the iso house where they will be sure surest t to get attention without breaking Into the lie farm routine tho lie latter being a fertile cause for the neglect of tho Many n a man can remember the lie garden of boyhood where huere most of the tue work vorI suns waa done rainy days or when shen the farm work had beets been otherwise Interrupted Onus Ono of the com Held IH ii alto also a good place for n a vegetable garden leaving out the lie corn would bo be liable to mix Make the garden large enough so that there will be n a good surplus of the hut best selling vegetables The gar den cnn be ho the trie most moat part of tho farm where there Is n a mar flour market ket for first clusH produce Very few farms farina cnn can show a r cash gain titan than the following summary of or profits from rout n a fouracre garden patch grown by a iv Now Ness York gardener Mr A Dun Don Donald ald iii List lAst I Ret net more asparagus as I find It best and Is In not HO io nitwit much cure care and labor as other crops My re cc receipts edits for the ln last t tour four years were Vere ai an taken from my toy books Asparagus gus pet per acre green cut In spring for forthe forthe the past pant four years has averaged 60 so The Tho cost of labor ts is about per year for manure 7 75 per year He lIe In full each year from touts all sales Celery two acres the average for tho thio last four yearn Asparagus per year J seed need 70 onions 15 greenhouse Included 20 total average BO Cost of labor ono One man lucia eight months nt at 1 per day and housu to live In anti from garden for man anti and wife manure 05 per year total cost for four years yearn labor manure leaving to ci on account of land antI and my labor laboranti anti ono one horse twin from four f ur acres acre In four years A good fruit and vegetable garden can vastly easily bo be worth Item to n a year to a fatally family especially It there lucre lire are several in lit the tho family arid and besides the tho money value Just think of the tue enjoyment In having at all times perfectly fresh vegetables and fruit gathered from your own oun garden Anti And yet there lire thousands of farm cm era families thio do not see nee a fresh on their tables once a year ear with the exception of potatoes Many city people who hardly over ever see a rod of bare baru earth faro fare fur far littler better In the ho hott way tt of vegetables and fruits than many litany of the lie tanners farmers with their heir hundreds of acres Would not farmers sorts sons and daughters bo be better contented to stay on Oil thu tue farms If farm had Us Its and fruit gardens Farmers me nic looking too much that almighty dollar fur far too little after the health and happiness of their heir families anti and these Is far more of both botis In a good gar garden garden den than there lucre Is in the doctors medicine Lay Ln up n a full fail supply of vegetables vegetable for winter Heets Itee turnips car carrots carrots rots etc be put iut Into lusto boxes or barrels barrein anti covered with wills dry sand In lit Inthis this lii way they will keep loep a year In per fact condition onions If started In February or March Marchand arid and tran planted out as soon ns as the lie ground IH in warm sarin will give fine largo large onions less than luau by sowing seed of other oilier varieties In open ground So much for the lie planning of the gay gar garden gayden den but the lie two most Important points In gardening have scarcely been touch toads touched ed eti anti tillage Much Is said of late about tillage taking the tiso place of manure but In the lie writers experience once ence bountiful crops have and only followed bountiful mn ma staring Good success zany may bo be had either by covering the ground with ith ma manure nure In the tim fall or by harrowing In Infine fine manure In lii thy spring Onions anti conic other small seeded plants are arc bet better better ter with hen manure ashes rind or with manure ns as free from weed seoul need ns as possible Tillage should bo be frequent enough to keep a surface mulch of loose earth at all tim times timen es en which coupled with proper manur lag ing will a fair crop almost re cc of the season |
