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Show Ffarm news notes f I BY LEW MAR PRICE f ? f . County Agent j. Our Family Garden Again this year, like last, every family should have an adequate, balanced bal-anced garden to cut down the cash expense and to provide a constant supply of vegetables as needed by the family. This garden should not only supply vegetables for family use during dur-ing the growing season, but also should supply to store dry and can for winter use. Plant the garden on the long, wide row plan so that the major part of the .work can be done with a horse and cultivator. A garden planted on this plan will produce a larger net return than any other area several times greater in size. Plan your garden on paper and then work your plan. See that the garden soil is well fertilized fer-tilized and that the seed bed is well prepared and firm. Plant only the very best seeds obtainable, and of the varieties that are adapted to grow best under your soil, moisture and climatic cli-matic conditions. Cover the small seeds very lightly, and firm the soil around the seeds after af-ter covering by walking along the row or patting down with the hoe. Cultivate sufficiently oftten to keep the surface of the soil loose and free from weeds. In irrigating, the aim should be to keep the moisture in the soil as nearly near-ly constant throughout the growing season as possible. This is accomplished accom-plished by cultivating lightly after each irrigation. List and quantity of vegetable seeds needed for the home garden for the average family of five: Early string beans, 1 pt.; late string beans, 1 pt.; dry beans, 1 qt.; ! Beets, 2 oz.; early carrots, 1 oz.; late i carrots, 1 oz.; chard, 1 pt.; early I sweet corn, 1 pt.; medium sweet corn, 1 pt.; late sweet corn, 1 pt.; cucum- ! bers, 1 oz.; leaf lettuce, 1 oz.; head ; lettuce, 1 oz.; onions from seed, (two plantings), 2 oz.; onion sets, 1 qt.; I parsnips, 1 oz.; early peas, 1 pt.; me-j dium peas, 1 qt.; late peas, 1 pt.; early ear-ly radish, 1 oz.; medium radish, 1 oz.; late radish, 1 oz.; spinach, 2 oz.; turnips, tur-nips, 1 oz.; early cabbage plants, 24; medium cabbage plants, 24; late cabbage cab-bage plants, 24; cauliflower plants, 24; egg plants, 24; pepper plants, 24; tomato plants, 24; cress or pepper grass, 1 oz. List of earliest vegetable seeds: Cress or pepper grass, 1 oz.; radish, French breakfast, 1 oz.; early lettuce, let-tuce, leaf, 1 oz.; early peas, 1 pt.; early carrots, 1 oz.; onion seed, 2 oz. Plant half of the seeds as soon as' the ground has dried sufficiently and the balance two weeks later. Plant Early Planting season is now upon us, :d no doubt is being taken seriously, i Usually the crops planted .early make the better yields, (and yields largely i etermine profits) than those left un-1 til later for planting. j Wheat planted late, usually does not stool so well, is more subject to j attacks of disease, rust, insects, etc., nd where late water is limited, does not have as good a chance to mature plump full heads. The covered grains j also can be planted earlier on the! higher lands with more security than when with-held until we feel sure of I no more cold weather. Coin withheld from planting until i so late that it is not experted it will be up when the June frost comes, does not have the chance to make the thrifty, vigorious growth of that planted earlier. Corn planted early, and then frozen down by a night or two of cold in June will come back from the already established root system sy-stem and be much in advance of the later plantings. Early planting is especially valu- able where late irrigation is ques- ', tion, and a gamble with the elements ' in the early season is much safer than with the drouth of the late Ben- ' son. - i Corn Requires Least Water i "I don't know what I should havo . done if I had not had silage." j "Silage saved my cows this year." Such are the expressions of at least , seven farmers in Heaver county who j put corn into trench silos last fall. i There are xcvernl major reasons why corn for silage should be given 1 due consideration in the cropping pro- i gram of the major percentage of the farms of the county: 1 I. It can be produced with less wat- i it than nny other feed crop. r .'!. Cost of seed is light. 4. The crop can he preserved for , winter feed with little or no cash out- lay. Trench silo can be made entirely ji from home labor. 5. It supplies a succulent and bal- J anre for the alfalfa ration, keeping:! stock in an improved physical enndi-' t.ion. j J Talk with h nuin who feil silage i this year. Visit his silo and see his j livetork. Compare his yields of corn with those of alfalfa, oats, o' even hurley. Facts that you cannot J di: pule will recommend coin for sil- uis. J |