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Show Garden Farm Notes Rye may be cut for hay and used for all classes of live stock. The demand for agricultural experts ex-perts far exceeds the supply. Poultry manure is particularly good for forcing the growth of onions. Stock raising is the best insurance against an impoverished agriculture. A clover sod turned down makes an excellent foundation for a corn crop. Use nitrate of soda or liquid manure ma-nure for crops that are growing slowly. Whenever a farmer gets the auto fever he at once becomes a good-road preacher. "Worn-out" manure from old hot beds Is just the thing for mushroom beds in the cellar. Keep the stables and the yards clean bo that files and Insects have no breeding place. To kill Canada thistle in a field, put the field In some cultivated crop and keep the weeds down. In a corn-growing territory cow peas are mostly grown with corn, sowing broadcast and otherwise. Beg, borrow or buy all the wood ashes you can to use in the garden; work it well into the soil. If the house is damp scatter soma dry ashes and air-slaked lime about They are good absorbents. If there are 'plants which show par ticular vigor save the seeds from them to be used next year. If your plants grow tall and spindly thin them out. Do not be afraid to cut go at them courageously. Reverse ends of window blinds or curtains when bottom becomes worn. It gives them a new lease at the win dows. |