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  • Circumventing Weeds In The Garden

    The long growing season of the south makes it almost impossible, at least impracticable, to keep the garden clear f weeds all summer. No matter how clean the garden may be kept throughout the earlier part of the season, the weeds creep in Iater on, and in the fall the garden looks more like a […]

  • Making Straight Garden Rows

    ” To enable one man to mark out straight rows in the quickest possible manner.” writes R. J. Dallinga of Summit county, Ohio, we stretch two, strong cotton lines, which cost us about 25 cents apiece, where the first two rows are to be, say, 3 feet apart. “From a garden drill we remove all […]

  • Securing Early Plants For Gardening

    Charles Black of Mercer county, New Jersey, tells how to secure early plants for early gardens; as follows : ” Hotbeds and cold frames are easily made and managed. They can be counted on to give so much pleasure and profit that nearly all farmers should have at. least one of each to grow plants […]

  • Planting A Midsummer Garden

    “My summer garden;” writes Dr. M. R. Sharpe of Maine. was started more as an experiment than from any real expectation of its being a success. Some of my neighbors laughed when they saw me after July 4 sowing seed which they believed should have been put in the ground by the middle of May.-My […]

  • Great Value Of Humus

    Humus in the soil has seldom been taken at its full worth. The mission which it fulfills is second in importance only to that which is fulfilled by the presence of plant food in the soil. Humus is helpful in keeping soil in proper physical balance, in binding soils that are much prone to blow, […]

  • Value Of Fertilizers

    ” As soon as planting is all done about one ounce of nitrate of soda is applied around each plant, care being exercised that none is put on the plants, for where it is so left it will burn them. When it is all on, the tooth cultivator is put on, and the ground cultivated […]

  • Field Forcing Vegetables

    The forcing of early vegetables has become a business of considerable magnitude, and a person may well ask, Does it pay, and, if so, can I hope to succeed? “My own work,” says E. E. Adams of Essex county, Ontario, ” has been growing for early market tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, beans, muskmelons, and sweet corn […]

  • Western Woman’s Garden

    Mrs. H. M. Woodward of Illinois writes of her profitable garden as follows : ” Our plot of ground is 150 x 165 feet, and we have the use of another lot near by which is go x 165 feet. Nearly half of this lot is used as a chicken park, but we have several […]

  • Breezy Notes By Woman Gardener

    “Truckers say that after seed is sown we should either roll, slap, or tramp the ground,” says Mrs. Preston Kuntz of Pennsylvania. ” I never do that This method should be used only on dry and sandy soil. I gently pat with my hand or the hoe; this is sufficient to settle the ground. If […]

  • Garden Profits

    “During the last seven years I have been engaged in vegetable gardening near Columbus, Ohio, in which city all the produce has been marketed,” writes Prof. V. H. Davis. ” All the principal vegetables have been grown with more or less success, but we have always followed the plan of making a specialty of two […]

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