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Show The only really successful garden is the clean garden. Good fruit and vegetables in clean attractive packages need no salesman. Turnips as a second crop moro than pay the timo and work put In on thorn. Making a good garden is a man's Job. Do not leave tho hard work to tbo women folks, With good equipments and willing workers haying ia not altogether a disagreeable task. Cauliflower can bo grown more eas lly than cabbage. It la always in demand de-mand and at good prices. Plant seeds of string beans every fortnight, so that thero will always bo a supply of tender pod 8. Wagons, rakes, forks, rucks, and everything should all bo in good order or-der before the harvest begins. Celery blanches nicely If a alx-indi drain tllo Is slipped over each plant, when tho time comes for blanching. Make sowings onco a week of such quick-growing vegetables as lettuco and radishes, to Insure a continuous succession. Any delay made to repair harvesting tools not only subjects tho farmer to loss of money by hindering tho field hnnds. but subjects him to loss by prolonging tho timo of gathering his crops. As soon as tho grass gets into tho proper condition. It should be gathered In Just as early au possible, for when allowed to fully rlpeu before cutting a great portion of the nutriment Is lost. Clean out tho chaff and hay seed on tho barn flour and scatter it over bare places in tho lota and pastures. Tata scattered seed represents good money value and It should be put to good purpose. Clearing up and removing all growths along the margins of a garden gar-den and fields with thorough, continuous contin-uous cultivation will give almost complete com-plete immunity from cut worms, grubs, etc |