Show PROPER TIME TO PREPARE CARDEN GARDEN CARDENA GARDENA A Feld Fe Well-Cared-For Well Hotbed Sashes Are Good Money Makers Makers Makers Mak Mak- ers on Any Farm COVER CROP IMPROVES SOIL All Rubbish Dead Vines s or Plants Stakes and Poles Should Be Bo Cleared Away and Ground Planted to a Green Crop Whether It is conducted on an an extensive ex scale r to supply the market or whether it is to produce food for the family the garden plot Is likely to be bethe bethe bethe the most profitable acreage on the farm arm Gardening really starts In the fall When the last vegetables have been removed and stored the prudent 9 w s Pr t S van 1 e Arm Hotbeds Furnish Early Vegetables ble at ata a Time When They Command Highest High High- est Market Prices ardener j m r sete s sets ts about about b i ito to to prep prepare re the ground round for the next years year's crop Clearing Away Refuse Any rubbish dead vines or plants 6 end and bean n poles or tomato stakes should be away away Bays says says' the the United d States Department of ot Agriculture and the ground sown to to rye or or some other green crop to prevent the loose earth from washing under the winter rains A cover crop also Improves the he condition of the soil soli When a cover crop cannot be supplied the next best thing that may may be done Is to plow or spade the soil soli and allow It to lie Ite rough throughout th the winter This practice destroys many Insects that lie He just below the surface The winter frosts have bave a q lightening effect I upon apon the especially a Iy on clay soils sOIl The earliest earnest and choicest vegetables tables ire are harvested by the man who main main maintains a few tew hotbed sashes sashes' and uses them to sta start his garden He Is able abie to handicap th the frost line by sev several ml weeks and to to set strong well well well-devel devel developed ped plants plants plants' i In lils his garden at ata a time Ime when his neighbors are planting seed 1 The farm Income Is at Its lowest point Joint In the early spring but It can be Increased considerably by the sale of ot young foung plants grown in In hotbeds and nd I ready for transplanting Tomato cabbage cab cabbage bage base eggplant and pepper plants are always snapped up when the he first warm planting days come and they Ire are easily grown In n the hotbed A AI little more space and a Ut little le mor more s seed I than the ver gro grower needs for tor his own use a ire rare likely to bring good profits liere BeI Be- Be tore re the ground freezes In the fall tal Is Isa l I a good time to to clean out the old hotbed hot hot hot- bed beds Unless the soil soU used In the hotbed Is te to be e. e exchanged changed for tor fresh ea earth h hI ht I It t I should be shoveled from the bed andI and I tossed Into into a 8 pile nearby The deca decayed dea de de- 0 a ca caged cd manure from the bottom ottom Is scat scat- over the pile and thoroughly mixed with It to form rich soil for next years year's TP beds Over this i goes oes a coat of straw or leaves held down bj by bits of b board ard l to s Some keep keepit U fron blowing Bowing farmers find It convenient to use me evergreen boughs Instead stra of strap for fOt the outer covering Preparation of Hotbed New hotbed pits should should dug s s. s that they will face the south and the location should be selected so thai that the beds will wUl be protected rot ct from the cold coM north winds and lat late spring storms Sometimes the earth taken from the new pit Is st suitable for tort tortus or us use In the hotbed but this Is the exception rather than the rule A few loads of ot leaf mold from the woods mixed with the natural soil will often form torm a smooth rich mass which gl C gives s an im Ideal h hotbed filler The he back or north side of the frame Is us usually from 12 to 18 IS Inches high while the south end Is about eight Inches so that the whole bed may have pitch enough to get the sun upon all aU parts The standard hotbed sash II Is handled bandIed by most dealers and measures three feet In width and six feet In length A frame Just wide enough to support the sash seems to be the most satisfactory though wider beds are ate sometimes used with supporting ridges ridge placed at six foot Intervals A well well- painted cypress sash glazed with a good double strength double strength glass well set In putty should give the careful gardene 12 to 15 years years' service Heat for the hotbed Is furnished bj by means means' of a bed of horse borse manure 8 to 16 10 Inches thick thick In the bottom of pit Permanent hotbeds are ott often 1 heated with coils colls of ot steam or hot hob water pipes und under r the b bed Hotbeds require constant care to prevent their becoming overheated especially during bright weather |