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Show FARM NOTES. The dirty back yard Is a breeding place for all manner of disease. If you have never grown head lettuce let-tuce try It for the first time this season. sea-son. In some sections of the country the practise of mulching potatoes Is followed fol-lowed by a number of growers. The steel toothed garden rake Is one of the best hand tools for cultivating culti-vating the soil about young plants. A crop of cornstalks out well out Into fine pieces and well worked Into the soil Is worth aa much- as a coating coat-ing of manure, j The early potato patch can be turned into a plat for turnips, late Bweet corn or buckwheat as soon as the tubeis are removed. Very fine fruit and large yields can be secured from tomatoes by setting posts and running horizontal wires Bimllar to the grape trellis. |