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Show Garden Farm Notes Kaffir corn makes good silage. Keep the manure spreader busy. Why not try a patch of alfalfa this season? Plow the garden deep when you plow It. A true saying: "A good garden Is half the living." Flax Is a plant that does well on a varoety of soils. The careful stockman gives his manure ma-nure spreader dally exercise. Rhubarb Is one of the standard garden gar-den crops in the vicinity of large cities. The green food problem In winter isn't much of a problem If there Is any alfalfa hay on the place. All the kernels of an ear of corn are approximately of the same composition, composi-tion, but dllferent ears vary considerably. consider-ably. Experienced onion growers do not ndvise nor follow the practice of planting plant-ing onions on raw or new land as a first crop. Grasshoppers may be materially decreased de-creased by winter or early spring disking. disk-ing. The sooner manure is spread In the Held, the smaller the loss of fertility incurred and the smaller tho amount of labor required to handle it. The common disk harrow is more generally used than any other Implement Imple-ment to culltvate alfalfa, and when properly adjusted does good work. In order to retain the full amount and get all of the value out of the farm manure, It Bhould be hauled directly di-rectly from the stall or feeding sheda and spread upon the land. |