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Show DOUBLES YIELD IN GARDEN Twice Amount of Vegetables Ser.ured by Means of Irrigation One Farmer's Experience. Six years ago the weather was very lry. and my garden stuff was not making the growth that 1 wanted, so 1 decided to Irrigate It. 1 took my team and wagon and went to a stream two miles away with barrels and brougl t a loud of water home. As this was my first experience, in the business, 1 had no means of distributing dis-tributing the water except with pans and buckets, says a writer In tho j Farm Progress. However, I went ahead until I had finished tho Job. I gave only a Hr-ht application at Urst, after the mm went down, so flat It would not evaporate so rapidly. rap-idly. This method tailed for ronBld erahle labor and time, but In Just few days 1 could see a great change In the growth of my garden Huff 1 continued the Irrigation until my garden corps were matured, ami j found I had made Just about twice tie amount of Muff that I had bc'n ' making on the same land in previous years. Experience made me rather enthusiastic about this matter, so I decided to build A large reservoir that would bold enough water for all I iy garden crops Then It would not ; seem such i task to do the Irrigating, ; and I could do It when I wanted to i Ho the fall following my first year I dug a very hirpe pond only a short distance from my garden. During the winter it filled. The next spring j I did not plant all of my garden stuff j as soon as usual, as the early planted j stuff was hard to keep In shape on account of heavy spring rnlns packing tho ground and tie weeds getting a start before It could be worked. I laid In a good supply of hose and 1 bought a good pump. I also secured 1 a spray attachment. As soon as the i dry period camo on I began my irrl ! gating, and kept It up throughout i the entire growing season. Uy giving small applications at a time, every fi-w days, If worked fine. I I find that the yield can be doubled j every year, uml sometimes It will be more than doubled. Since learning j tho renl value of this Irrigating I ; would not think mS trying to raise a garden without Irrigating It If the weather gets dry. Of course, there are people who would scoff at the Idea. 1 would advise every reader to try this once, If they have a garden and want to make the most of It. It j will not take long, even though you j have to haul your water. It Is better, I however, to either dig a cistern or a pond. Perhaps some will have a stream of living water near by that they can utilize, or a well near the house that will afford plenty of water. Early Chicks. Don't fry to raise early chicks tin less yoti have a place to properly care for them. It Is a waste of time and money, A good many think If they ran hatch the chltks. brooding them Is a small matter. Such Is not the crhc. I Proodlng the early rhlcks successfully I Is a subject that, needs more atten Hon than Is usually given It. Hatch Ing early chicks Is comparatively easy To artificially brood the early batched chicks successfully, warm, comfortable comfort-able quarters that are not subject to sudden change of fitful winter and enrly spring weather must be pro Vided. More people fall In the brood Ing than In the hatching, and no doubt for the reason stated, (live the brood ! Ing more attention and see If the r i suit will not bo better. 1 |