The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-26

from the house, the chip yard and chicken
houses. 1t must have fertilizers and
hardly anything comes amiss-ashes, bones,
rotten fruit, dust and slops. It is better
preventive of disease than any system of
house drains. It does not simply remove
noxious matter short distance but recon-
structs entirely.
With respect to work in the garden, one
rule will apply to all cases; it must be kept
free from weeds. Lack of cultivation or
poor seeds may cause failure one year;
weeds will do that and also spoil the land
for years to come. Trial will show that
they are worse here than in the or.
chard or grain field. Much of the
garden work can be better done by the
boys aud girls than by the farmer himself
the gathering of fruit and vegetable,
wedding, watering and daily care.
OF the varieties to be grown, individual
experiment must be the chief guide
But they should certainly include fresh
small fruit for six months with surplus for
canning, and fresh vegetables for the whole
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a great variety but where the garden has
been neglected in the past this cannot be
reached at once. The man who starts this
year with twenty new varieties will be no
further ahead in autumn than he who be-
gan with two and will probably have dis
appointment enough to prevent his trying
next year. The most important rule for
selection of varieties is. depend for main
reliance on those that you or your neigh.
bors have proved, but try some new ones
every season.
In laying out the garden, the first thought
must be given to the arrangement of the
perennials, as they cannot easily be re-
arranged. 1t seems that every garden
should contain a row or two of Myatt's
Victoria Rhubarb and Conover's or
Barr's Asparagus. While these cannot be
ranked as the best production of the garden,
they are the best of the early class and
aside from that are fairly excellent. Fol-
lowing these should come full line of
berry bushes and vines. Plant the
standard and try the novelties. Great i'm
proven,ents are being made at the present
in the quality, yield and hardness of the
berries and the successful man must make
some effort to keep up with the times.
In starting small fruit we must take pains
to cultivate we'll and keep the land clean
till the vines are full grown. This is a
great point; an essential of success. Invest
all the labor that can be spared on growing
fruit plants. Nothing is more satisfactory
than to see man spend a great deal of time
for several years, on his young fruit. for
then he must continue the care or lose
what he has done. Anyone will expect to
fertilize the land for his ANIMALS but many
neglect the perennials. While they may
not need as strong manure as the rest,
they do need such as chips, ashes and
mulch. 1t does not matter whether 1T is
cattle and chickens or fruit trees and vines,
if they have barely enough nourishment to
support life, they will live, but without
profit. The gain is from full feed. "Thers
is that withholdeth but it tendeth to pow.
erty." Seasoning and medicinal herbs are
an essential, but often neglected part of
the kitchen garden. A number of them
are perennials and should be arranged as
that class. Some plants, however, such as
horseradish, generally grown as perennials
are better for annual planting, Study of
the nature and development of our garden
plants is practically useful as we'll as in
teresting While the arrangement of the
ANIMALS must be left to the judgment of
the cultivator, there should be a system
and it should extend over several years SO
as to provide for rotation. Here it may be
said that pole or bush peas and beans have
no place in busy mans garden; the dwarf
sorts will fill the bill with less labor. If
there is room to grow but one kind of beans,
let it be the wax. They are as prolific,
much finer for cooking as string beans, can
be dried green like corn and will prove as
good and are better cooked when ripe. 1t
is no more trouble to raise Savoy cabbage
than any other, and when properly cooked
it is almost equal to caulifiower and Gun be
had the year around. The early short car
rot, served in cream, is deicacy not often
enough enjoyed. For many dishes of vege-
tables, the TASTE may have to be acquired,
but as the advertisements say, it can be
learned in twelve easy lessons. Satisfy
does well here and makes soup hardly
to be distinguished from that of the oyster
itself. Salads, as regular article of food,
are not we'll enough understood, yet in Ore.
gon they can be made to give endless
variety and satisfaction for nine-tenths of
the year. Who has demonstrated that we
grow melons, or that it would not
pay if we did? Suppose they ripen late.
Offer them to the boys in OetoberJ if they
refuse them then, nothing more need be
said. Let us not make the mistake of
cattle or sugar beets good enough
for the table even when young. A good
table beet should cook as tender as butter
with no fibers whatever.
Such suggestions might be continued
endlessly, but there is one other vital point,
the seeds. Choose reliable scotsman and
buy principally from him every year. 1t is
difficult to save good seeds in kitchen
garden. The cross between two good
varieties, will generally be poor. Aside
from the mixing, saving seed requires time
and self.denial and special knowledge.
Few are willing, after raising crop, to
save for seed the earliest, largest and best,
and few have time to protect, gather and
cure; vet if this is not done the quality of |