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Show I Does Your Garden Grow? S3? 8 3g 33 32? 83? 36?-' 36?-' Ogdenites Take Chance 5ff as? as? 3s as? se? as? as? Weeds Win Over Spade IN By Harry Bag ley, Jr. Though not impelled by needs of war to snntle, and rake and hoe, and I to litter up ihe back yard, offer en; couragement lo neighbors' poultry', , and irrigate a choice crop of assorted as-sorted noxious weeds, a number of i Ogdenites took the chance and in 1 trying to get "back to' nature" without with-out leaving town, betook upon themselves them-selves the cares and anxieties and responsibilities of a two by twice garden, hose irrigated. One man, two weeks ago, proudly boasted thathis Tadishes would be ready days "before the Utah crop appeared on the market. And before they had matured sufficiently suf-ficiently for table use, a gaifg of neighborly boys had appropriated the fruits, or rather the vegetables, of his labor. Has it ever occurred to the gentle reader that spring onions, turnips, and such humble representatives of I CM CORA1. t-&jeew) I T the vegetable kingdom have unusual magnetic properties whe;i'. they first 4 appear, especially if boys reside in the neighborhood? What amateur gardner has not experienced ex-perienced surges of elation, thoughts of self importance, community spirit, and other high 'and lorty brain storms, at the thought of being a PRODUCER of necessities as he finishes fin-ishes spading up tho back lawn and planting carrots. How enthusiasti-; enthusiasti-; cally he waters the plot, how care fully he "watches for the appearance' of the first weed, and how promptly, with his ever ready hoe, he severed the first weed. I I This state usually continues for at least two weeks, then the garden j becomes a mere blister-raising patch, fit only as a place to stand and cuss, and to figure how much more profit- able a little fishing trip, or something, some-thing, would have been, if the time had been at. his disposal in a lump. We know pne man who successfully successful-ly cultivated a garden. That is, the garden was a success until about the 1 middle of the summer. Then he was I visited by myriads of beetles, bugs and things of every description, and fiouMDS I (' VAW ' Lw? y J the more he sprayed with arsenato of lead, essence of nicotine, strych-;ninV strych-;ninV and carbolic acid, the better I the bugs thrived. He swears that after he had besprinkled his cabbage i wilh nico.tine that millions, of grass-, hoppers -came to his garden 10 get a "chew." This invasion he curbed, however, by sprinkling plugs of "horseshoe" among his radishes and summer squash, and cabbage. ! op |