The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13
LEsSENmu THE WORK.
How to Make q Garden in These Days Of
Improved Machinery.


Improved Machinery.
The old plan of making a garden
was to spade up with good spade and
then divide all up into little beds.
Sometimes these beds would be made
permanent and the edges lined with
sod and close to this border of flow
ers. This thoroughly prevented the
use OF the pillow or harrow in preparing
the soil for planting.
spading was generally followed,
using the hoe to level and fine the soil
and prepare in a suitable condition for
planting. Lettuce was sown broad
cast, sometimes with cabbage and
tomato seed mixed with it in order to
raise supply Of plants. Whatever
wedding was done had to be done by
hand. A few crops such as peas, beans
or cabbage might be planted in rows,
yet they were so short that all the cul-
tivation was given them with the hoe.
The radish seed was usually sown
along the borders of the beds, making
hole with the fingers and dropping in
two or three seeds.
OF course it was a tedious task tokeep
down the weeds and give the neces-
sary cultivation. and very often by the
middle OF July, all attempts at culti-
walton were abandoned and the weeds
allowed full sway until the next spring.
when another clean up, spading, hoe
ing, raking and seeding were gone
through with.
This method gave no opportunity to
use implements that would save time
or labor.
1t is always good economy to use
machinery when time can be saved and
fully as good work done, while at the
same time there will be less waste of
land. We usually expect that the gar
den will be the richest part of the farm,
and in consequence, expect quick
growth and good yield. so that it is
always an item to economic and use
space to the best advantage.
This implies not only economizing
all the ground, but raising as many
crops as possible. By having the gar
den oblong and then using the pillow to
break it up and the harrow to aid in
filming the soil, this part of the work
can be considerably decreased Usually
if the soil is rich and of sandy loan,
very little work with the rake will be
needed to put it in a thoroughly good
condition. Then with a seeder the
work of putting the seed in the ground
will be very light.
With the improved seeders that we
now have the work can be done better
and more evenly, the furrow or rows
can be marked out, the seed sown and
covered all at once, and considerable
saving of seed be made; and if wanted,
the soil can be firmed. An hours work
with a good seeder will SOW more seed
and sow it better than days work by
hand. BY having the plants in straight
rows, and the plants standing straight
in the rows, the cultivator can be set
so as to cultivate very close to the
plants, leaving but narrow strip be-
tween the rows to be cleaned out by
hand. 1t is comparatively a small
task to do this as compared with using
the hoe and pulling the weeds by hand.
On this account, the garden can be
kept clean, not only insuring better
growth and yield, but also keeping the
soil prepared for second crop. Be-
cause there is no necessity for the soil
remaining idle during the growing
season. More or less cultivation is
necessary to keep down the weeds, and
in doing this a crop can be grown.
Garden seeds and cultivators are Just
as necessary to raising vegetables
cheaply, and to have good garden, as
larger machinery is necessary to the
economical management of the field
crops. And the farmer who expects to
have good garden and to have it with
the least cost must use the garden Gull
tivator. There are quite number of
different kinds. Generally, consider
ing their cost, the double wheeled, that
take row at each time through work
ing on both sides of the plants, will be
found the most economical. Get
good one and then use it.-Western
PLoaOna0aa.