Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06

judgment in the matter of horse flesh,
who is capable of estimating the amount
of strain a young untried horse will stand!
If spirited and ambitious. he will TO the
novice, of the careless hired man. appear
to be doing with ease what will show up
later as having the rudiments Of injury
imbodied in it. The mucles are easily
made sore, for the same reason that a
boys muscles get sore each time. until he
gets Injured to it, that he plays game of
ball. One of the least damaging results
Is the early appearance of wind puffs,
more easily brought out on some young
horses than on others, because the tenden-
cy to anything elseis inherited II is
quite possible for a young horse to get
an atrophy tsweeny1 of one or of both
shoulders There are others deeper seated
that can not be seen, and important, par
fly because of being hidden. Therefore,
if the young horse be put early to work,
the work should be of that kind that
grieves relief, now and then, and, as a
rule should not be of that sort that occurs
before the pillow.
THE GARDEN SoIL.-The ideal soil for
a garden is a mellow, sandy loan, under
laid with "a subsoil that is not too open or
porous. Such ground is termed - CRATE
full" and it is not the kind of gratitude
which has been defined as "alively appre-
citation of fayors to come" which is true
of some other soils. This ideal land re-
members past fayors; it retains the fer
tilizers with which it has been enriched.
and returns them in the form of good
crops until the gift is exhausted; therefore
it is thrifty as well as grateful soil.
The owner can bring it up to the highest
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judicious management. This sandy loan
natures blending of sand and clay Is a
safe bank, The manure incorporated
with it is a deposit which can be drawn
against i'll fruit and vegetables, for it does
not leach away and disappear with one
seasons rains.
Light, thin, sandy soil, with porous
or grayelly subsoil, is of a very different
type, and requires different treatment.
1t is q spendthrifs. No matter how much
you give it one year, it very soon requires
Just so much more. You can enrich it,
but you can't keep it rich. Therefore you
must manage it as one would take care of
a spendthrift, giving what is essential at
the time, and in a way that permits as
little waste as possible / shall explain
this treatment more fully further on.
In the choice of a garden plot you may
be restricted to a stiff, tenacious, heavy
clay. Now you have a miser TO deal with
a soil that retains bnt i'll many cases makes
no proper use of, what it receives Skill
and good management, however, can inn
prove any soil, and coax luxuriaEt crops
from the most unpropitious.
We will speak first of the ideal soil al
ready mentioned, and hope that the acre
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sions for q garden. What should be the
first step in this case? Why to get more
, of il. quarter of an acre can be made
, equal to half an acre. You can about
double the garden, without adding to ii
an inch of surface, by increasing the
depth of good soil. For instance, ground
has been cultivated to the depth of six or
seven inches. Try the experiment of
stirring the soil and enriching it one foot
downward, or eighteen inches. or even
two feet. and see what vast differences
! will result. With every inch you go down
making all friable and fertile you add
Just so much more to root pasturage
? When you wish to raise great deal, in
crease your leverage. Roots are your
LEVERS when they rest against deep fer
tile soil they lift into the air and sun
| shine products that may well delight the
= eyes and palate of the most fastidious
We suggest that this thorough deepening.
2 pulverization. and enriching of the soil
7 be done at the start when the pillow can
be used without any distractions If
/ there are stones, rocks, roots anything
which prevents the treatment which a
; garden plot should receive, there is a de-
: cided advantage III clearing them all out
| at the beginning. Last fall | saw a half
acre that was swampy and so cucumber
ed with stones that one could walk all
. over it without stepping off the rocks,
! The land was sloping, and therefore cap
able of drainage, The proprietor put
three men to work on the lower side with
, picks shovels, amp blasting tools. They
turned the soil over to the depth of eight
3 aen inches. taking out every stone larger
than a walnut. Eight or ten feet apart
, deep bitches were cut, and the stones, as
as possible, placed in these. The rest
were carted away for heavy wall. You
may say it was expensive work SO il
was; yet so complete a garden spot was
made that / believe it would yield a fair
interest in potatoes alone. ! relate this
: instance to show what can be done A
5 more forbidding area for garden in its
original state could scarcely be found
: Enough vegetables and fruit can be rails
ed from it hereafter with annual fertiliz-
ing, to supply large family, and it will
] improve every year under the refining
p effects of frost, sun, and cultivation.
1t should be remembered that culture
3 does for soil what ii does for people. II
: mellows, brings il up, and renders it cap
r able of finer products. Much, indeed. can
, be done with a crude piece of land in a
/ single year when treated with the thor
I oughness that has been suggested, and
] some strong-growing vegetables may be
] seen at their best during the first season
but the more delicate vegetables thrive
e better with successive years of cultiya-
q ton. No matter how abundantly the
p ground may be enriched at first, time and
e chemical action are required to transmute
S the fertilizers into the best forms of plant
D food and make them a part of the very
soil itself. Ploughing or spading, es-
b. pecially if done in late autumn, exposes
4. the mould to the beneficial action of the
air and frost, and the garden gradually
Y takes on the refined, mellow fertile char
I acter which distinguishes it from the or