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Show A Farmer's Garden, As spring advances the farmer begins be-gins making preparitlon for the seasons sea-sons work Oats are to be sown In this Meld peas In that one. A piece of sod will be broken up for corn and so on So far well and good, but what about the garden? Alas, this part of the farm, and a ery Important pait we consider it to be. Is toil often never given any consideration at all The farmers' garden, as we often see It, lei something hard to deirilhe A few rows of potnloes Rnd sweet corn, stuck ln somewhere overgrown wjih weeds, and the surface oil dried and cracked, Is about as we will usually see It, when, along In July, the hurty of hajlngj and harveiitlng has cnueel him to neglect the garden. This should not to be no for the garden may and should be made a valuable source of supply from which the women folic may draw for a 'vailely" for their table. each year, and she Is lo be pitied who has no garden to which she may go during the spring. Hummer and fall, nnd a cellar well stocked with canned fruit nnd egetnblea to which she may resort In wlnler. A garden well plonncd and looked after, will supply, lit unlimited quan. titles a great many of the so-i ailed luxuries of life (to us they aie neeei-sltles) neeei-sltles) for the farmers table Mho Is bette entitled than the farmer nnd hin famllj lo these thlngs7 And what class is more favotably situated to obtain them' They may bo had for the growing In one case. In the other they must bo bought. In planning and laslng out a garden theie arc several things to take Into consideration The piece of ground selected should be located as conveniently conveni-ently to the houne as possible It should have good dialnige, natural or nrtlflclal. for It is here that much may be gained If Is has good drulnage and a southern exposure and e'ope, much of the labor may be done at odd moments, mo-ments, even after showera while the soil In tho tegular fields Is yet too wet to work After all the work of tend-Ing tend-Ing a garden need not be great. If only this work be done at the right time and In, the right wnj t'nlesii work Is prevented hy wet. weeds should never be allowed to tee dnj light, nt leint thej should not be permitted tn grow lo any slje If once a garden Is overgrown with weeds a grent point of advantage Is lost, fnr future eultlvnllon will he uphill wotk The returns from a well-kept garden are not nlone In the fruits and ere-tahles ere-tahles secured but there In also pleasure pleas-ure real solid cr!oyment to be hnd from it There will be pleasure to be hod when jou show visitors over the garden, In fait, the garden will be tho most attractive and beautiful spot on tho farm Ily all means have a gar den a garden that Is a garden! M. N. Edgerton, In Ohio Farmer. |