Show THE AUTUMN IS THE TIME ME TIME TOM TO CLE JUP 2 AND plow UR UP I 1 A little work in the fall delotal d to cleaning and digging tile garden will help to keep tit alio plants healthy and the gardin breo from weeds next summer says bays J C II Il U S A 0 extension specialist it in agronomy I 1 cleaning tho the garcken in ill tile fall falli I 1 will remove it il big propof crop of weed deeds peeds and simplify the problem of weeding next igei summer from the thea i view point of weed control alone fall cleaning is profitable pull aili all pill old vegetables and weeds allo ill 0 and I 1 i burn them somo some of our bui most lie IL tive plant disease sare caused by fungi which live in ill tile old olda roots and stema As these decay in tile hie ground the fungi become scat through tho soil when tho the soil once be becomes conics infested it I 1 Is ii necessary to avoid planting these theae vegetables there tor for qa nany f years I 1 mr air Il hogenson points wu outi i pulling and burning these old plants also prevents the survival of many insects which hibernate bernate lil during the winter under the litter Ver ferrenial renial garden plants such a aa rhubarb ote etc should lie be cut ot oft at iho surface ot of tho the frost has killed the tops tapi afi ami the dead parts raked up and burac when your garden gar denla Js fertilized with fresh manure and ana plowed in the fall and allowed to he throughout tile tho winter whiter without further working tho the freezing and thawing breaks up 0 tile the soil roll into small particles and gives them it a chance to settle down into inton a fine compact mellow seed bed becj when harrowed in the spring such a seed bed be comes ideal for the rapid growth of 0 young plants pall fall plowing likewise helps to kill insect pests by exposing the eggs and the hibernating adults to the freezing winter weather the plowing under othe in tile fall causes the plant aws dl which the manuro manure contains to become aval available lable to the young plants in the early spring and thus bause cause more anoro rapid vigorous growth abo 0 agronomist states |