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Show FALL IS TIME TO CLEAN UP AND PLOW UP A lltftle work in the fall devoted to cleaning and plowing or digging the garden will help to keep the plants healthy and the garden free from weeds next summer, says J. C. Hogenson, extension specialist in Agronomy. Cleaning the garden! in the fall will remove a big crop of weed seeds and simplify the problem of weeding weed-ing next summer. From the view point of weed control alone, fall cleaning is profitable. PuU all old vegetables and weeds; pile and burn them. Some of our most destructive destruc-tive plant diseases are coused by fungi which live In the old roots and stems. As these decay in the ground the fungi become scattered i through the soil. When the soil once becomes infested It is necesa- ? ary to avcid planting ithese vegt- , tables there for many years. 1 Pulling and burning these eld P plants also prevents the survival !' of many infects which hibernato V dur'ng the winter under the litter, d Percnial garden plants such as as- j paragus, rhubarb, etc., should be cut off ait the surface of the ground '$ after frost has killed the tops and the dead parts raked up and burn ed. When your garden is fertilized ,? with fresh manure and plowed In the fall and allowed to lie throughout through-out the winter without further i working, the freezing and thawing breaks up the soil into small particles parti-cles and gives them a chance to i settle down into a! fine compact . mellow seed bed. When harrowsd ', in the spring, such a seed bed be- ' comes ideal for the rapid growth of ', ycung plants. -Fall plowing, likewise, helps to kill insect pests by exposing the eggs and the hibernating adults to the freezing winter weather. 1 The polwing under of ithe manure ! in the Tall causes the plant food which the manure contains to become be-come available to the young plants in the early spring and thus cause more rapid, vigerous . and even growth, Mr. Hogenson says. |