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Show Preparation of the Garden for Next Year. Here are a few good plans to put your garden in the best shape for next year's crops. After the various vegetables vege-tables have ripened and the plants died, the garden should be plowed. If you are keeping chickens, it would be well to harrow and sow to vetch or rape, either of which will give you a good crop of green food for the chickens. This can be planted as late as August 15. Sow it thickly and give It plenty of water. This crop will make a good green feed for the .chickens .chick-ens until it gets too dry and then it can be cured'and made into a water mash as needed. This makes a very good substitute for the green feed during winter months. If you have no chickens, and therefore there-fore have no use for a green feed, we suggest that you plant the garden to clover. Clover belongs to the leguminous legumin-ous class of plants, which put nitrogen back into the soil. Let this crop grow until just before frost, then plow it under. This will enrich the soil and lighten it. In any event, the garden should be plowed in the fall, particularly where the soil is heavy. This will permit the frost to break up and decompose the soil during the winter months, making the plant foods more available avail-able in the spring. Before planting, the entire garden should be gone over with a disk harrow. It will be still better if you will cover the ground with a fertilizer before be-fore plowing. There is nothing better for this perhaps than good sod, whicli accounts for better crops the first year than later on. Stable manure is good. If the soil is very heavy and sour put lime oil, iu the form of air slaked lime or ground raw lime stone. |