The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-04-24
Have You q Garden?
Have YOU a garden?


l ask this question of every man who
owns little patch Of ground. Having
ground and not q s.rden, you are not
living up to your privileges. anna aware
that most men think work in the gar.
den only fit for women and boys. This
know of men who can hardly be in.
duced to pillow the garden until. every
thingelse is done in spring. They seem
to think it isn't worth viii
Now, I know, from an observation of
some years, that half the living Of fam
lily of five or six persons can be raised
from small garden, and the labor call
ed for is not excessive, when judged
rom woman's standpoint, for in one
Of these little gardens all the work is
done by woman. who tells me that
she finds pleasure and health as we'll az
profit in the work.
Think of it! How long will it take to
piece of ground? How long will it take
drawn? Half day will more than COW
er the time demanded for these two
things. One days work will be suffici'
cent for making beds, and we will allow
another for sewing seeds. Two days
and half to begin with, and am maxi
ing a larger allowance Of time in which
to perform the work in most gardens
than ougl,t to, for most gardens are
small. You will ne surprised to find
how much can he done in two and a half
days work, when the work is done sys-
tematical]y. Ifyou have to spade the
grounh instead IF blowing it, perhaps
three days vii. be used up, but think
not.
When your seeds are sown, you have
nothing more to do until the weeds be-
gin to grow. Then you must not forget
your garden if you make a success OF it.
6nd that very many pers ms start out
in the spring verv enthusiastically; their
enthusiasm wanes before the weeds
come, and before they get round to what
ought to be done promptly, the poor
vegetables have become 60 choked
and overrun with weeds that
they never amount to much.
The rule Of greatest Importance in gar
deping ia this: Do what work is to be
done when 1t needs dong. DO not walt,
and think, we'll, it's only the garden,
ii ScG ATOulU " IL dltcT 1uOI0 4IupOI.
tant work il attended to. If you once
have good ga, den, you will not put the
garden in the background after that.
You will consider it of prime impor-
| lance. The fact is, a good garden is sec.
| ond to nothing else about the farm in
point of value, so far as the living for the
family is concerned. If proper atten-
ton is given the weeds when thew begin
| to grow it will be an easy matter to keep
them under all throuy h the season.
Once let them know you are master and
mean to remain SO, and they will give
up; but they are stubborn and persever.
ing. and they viii! keep YOU fighting
them all summer if you begin the battle
in a half hearted way. The work oil
wedding and keeping the garden beds
clean is not very hard or disagreeable il
you have the proper tools to work with
| You want small hand cultivator, which
can be adjusted at any width between
the rows, a sharp hoe and a narrow-bla.
ded hoe, coming to point, a hoe shaped
like q V, only rather narrower, or longer
in proportionate width and length thar
the letter. About most farms there an
broken hoes from which q tool of thl!
kind can be fashioned. It can be ground
l down thin and sharp on the edges. It'll