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Show SEED BED FOR THE GARDEN Preparation of the Soil Determines What the Success Will Be with Plants. With a view of preparing tho most suitable, seed bed posBlblo for our gar-don, gar-don, which Is too often neglected upon many farms, wo first went over It twice with n sharp disk harrow, tho same, dny It was plowed to a depth of between be-tween six and soven Inches. Ono day's sun was allowed in which to dry off tho surface of tho soil so that it would not pack under the horses feet. Then n lloat was run over it several times, nnd again twlco disked, and again tho float until tho surface was level nnd perfectly fine. This manner of working has given a flno loose seed bed tho depth of the plowing, which will rotnln moisture better, cntiso tho plant food to bo nvnll-nblo nvnll-nblo to tho plants, and will bo especially espe-cially favornblo to strong rapid gor-' gor-' mlnntlon of nil gnrden seeds. Dy this method, snys tho Prnlrlo Fnrmer, tho plant requires tho least posslblo effort tijion tho part of tho young plants to send out roots and afford af-ford connection with tho soil. With this preparation wo can reasonably expect ex-pect cultivation to bo moro effectively nnd quickly done than If tho under toll was full of large clods. |