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Show FARM NOTES. In trying alfalfa atart with an acre. A good lawn makea a home attractive. attrac-tive. Kentucky blue graas makea a very pretty lawn. , Alfalfa Is cut for hay when It first begins to bloom. A good rotation: Clover, wheat, J corn. flax, wheat. Celery la best grown from aeed planted In the hotbed. The bent alfalfa or clover seed to sow Is that which Is northern grown. For fall feed mix two pounds pet acre of dwarf essex rape with the grain. Start the garden by sowing beana. lettuce, poae, radlshcB. and aplnach In a hotbed. As soon aa the aoll can be worked In the garden sow the amooth, early varletlea of peaa. For early rhubarb, put a headless barrel over a root of the plant, and pile fresh horse manure around It. Roll the lawn to firm the soli about the grass roots. The lop ro las been loosened by tho heaving of the frost Not only for reclaiming worn-out lend .but for bringing that In fair condition con-dition Into a higher atate of fertility, green manuring la at once efficient and cheap. llend letture will grow b-st In a wi drained, lljrht clay soil, allghtly m!x.'d with sand. The soil should be fill cf humus and heavily manured lth e!l rotted stable fertilizer Cover and the other lKumes, wNch romo In the ordinary rotation of crot'S. net only supply humus but sd.i nltrocen g.ithored from the air by th" hirttrla resident In their root rodi!li-a. The raised bed must be tended by b .n l. and it dries out too fast in dry eut:-r. Make all In da level wltn th nirface of the ground to rave no Mu and make the work of tend Ir.g them easier. |
