Show asparagus bed worthy of good attention the asparagus bed will make good returns for any reasonable amount of time which one spends on it too often it Is allowed to grow as best it can in some remote corner ot of the garden the application of fertilizer in the form of barnyard manure and some cultivation will increase the fruitfulness of the plants and make the shoots more tender and more palatable A good dressing of barnyard manure should be worked into the soil round around a the asparagus crowns us ns soon as the soil Is in working condition in the spring keep the weeds down durl during n 9 the growing season by hoeing boeing or cu cultivating t tiva ting at the end of the cutting season allow the plants to grow up and form seed |