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Show Garden od Farm Notes Don't try to save money by buying cheap seed. Farm tests are worth more than all the theories. Deep plowing is necessary to get the best results. Don't sow alfalfa seed on verye-cently verye-cently plowed land. There never were better opportuni ties in vegetable garden than today. to-day. Cabbage growing for kraut factories fac-tories is a peculiarly uncertain business. busi-ness. Build a silo and save much of the fodder that would otherwise go to waste. Watch your machinery for loose bolts and nuts, and don't forget the oil can. A half crop of corn can be turned into five-sixths of a crop by Baving the fodder., Two of the best acreage-saving money-making propositions up to the farmers farm-ers today are silage and alfalfa. Don't plant the large varieties of cucumbers, cu-cumbers, expecting to raise as many as if the cluster kind were used. Salsify or vegetable oyster should be left in the ground the same as parsnips. Freezing improves it. Thick neck onions are usually seen during such seasons as have wet weather at the usual time of ripening. Although there is little data on the subject, alfalfa silage of good quality-would quality-would certainly make an excellent hog feed. Some enterprising gardener should work up a fancy trade on Al vegetables vege-tables in the neighborhood of cities ol 5,000 or over. Driving a wedge with the back ol the ax has spoiled many a good tooL Take a paul or beetle to do that work and save the ax for its own use work. Put a small handful of meal in the pail of milk. The calf in licking the pail will get the meal, and alter it learns to eat this way a small feeding feed-ing box can be used to better advan-i advan-i tage. |