Show ASPARAGUS MUST HAVE RICH SOIL delicacy will groy grovy in drained ground if plant food Is properly applied ROOTS BETTER THAN SEED spring Is good time to transplant shoots shoot may be blanched by ridging up over rowe row with loose looie sandy soil asparagus should hate anite a place in every mer home vegetable garden where it w will III thrive this crop can be grown on n almost any well drained soil but will do best on a deep mellow sandy loam anys the united states department of agriculture there Is little possibility poi of having the t lie lurid land too rich and liberal applications of partly rot ted barnyard in manure should be made before the plants are set the I 1 he seeds of asparagus may ma be sown during the early earl spring in the rows where here the plants ure to remain and the tecal thinned to stand 14 inches apart in the row ut at the end of tile first sea biason sorl it Is usually hobt satisfactory to ti pur chase two avar old roots loots front from some smile Re edsman or denier dealer the 1 lie roots root ahI uld bu be arnn i hinted luring during the into au or 01 early cai 1 spring s i lug before setting ns out the plants the land should he 1 u loo eneal very dwelly di cali either by b soil plowing or dael lead and ing it Is a gool good plan to renoi the topsoil toi soil and spade manure into tit sub soil to a depth of 14 or 16 inched then replace the topsoil and add more manure there are two metti of setting an asparagus bed entirely upon the kind ot of to be employed in the gar eardel deti if the garden space Is limited ihu plants should tie lie set lit in a solid beil bed one foot apart path each arity in letting asparagus par neus the crowns should be covered to r depth of four or five ancher the 1 I hp part of tin the aspi asi used as a 2 vegetable vee table Is the lie voting oung tint that I 1 ii thrown up dui hiring ins the emit early spring the shoots are rented removed ulten about four or ne five indies in lealh I 1 ll 11 cutting slightly below the surf surface iloe of the ground tut but care should he be taken that the hilife Is not thrust lit n jai ang aeple e or the lie crowns cromis will be ln jurd if so bo de hired the shoots amy be blanched bl UK hed by bv ridging up tili oer UK the roil roi s with loose blindy s lmh soil or b by alloi alloying ing the mulch to remain lilt und the lit shouts lio itu to malee their avay a gli it lint but as V 1 I 0 0 asparagus ready for market always ahas has a better flavol than blanched hla nihed ismore in more easily produced produce d and Is more satisfactory for home use too roo heavy ha mulching hatti hao a n tendency ton dency to tc letard the lie ruath growth of the shoots by keeping the ground cold until late in the spi spring ing no iso shouts should lie 1 removed hill first car benr tin the plants are ai it et lit in tile lie permanent n bed and the period of cut ling aln should be shut short the second year after r the second hinr the plants lit lie botne well mell established and on I 1 with proper fertilizing and care the ali lied led will vill last lal Indefinite indefinitely lr luring the cutting iut tini sin son arn till nil tile shoots should IP be rein wed us its the roots loots will cease to throw up boots 01 ts as soon us as one Is allowed to wit mil ture lure |