The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-13
THE 4 AGRICULTURAL WORLD
SOME SEASONABLE HINTS ON
FARM MATTERS.

40 WI llvl
flow to Manage a Farm and vegeta-
BILE Garden Successfully--Ce l-
cry and Celeriac--The Corn
Worm--Pale Dairy
ing--Short Notes.
flow to Manage Farm and Veg
etnble Garden Successfully.
i Let us take into consideration the
matter of a farm garden.
Have you planned to have yegeta-
bic garden this year? If so, why not
have a good one, laid out on a generous
scale?
If a thing is worth doing, at all it is
worth doing we'll BY all means have
well done' garden.
We do not mean by that a fancy gar
den, laid out in intricate geometric;us
figures, but one that is planned SO that
the most can be gotten out Of it with
the least expenditure Of labor.
Select the best piece Of land lying
near the house. Don't begrudge the
best, for a large part Of the family liv-
ing'can be got from this patch Of earth.
And dent stint in the supply of
manure for enriching it. When you
think you have put on about all you
can spare, add few loads more, using
only fine, well rOtted, rich manure
. Ii there is no thorough natural drain
age, tlc-drain the whole plat. It will
pay to do this in any case. for the soil,
We'll drained, will be earlier for work
ing and planting. Plow deeply and har-
row till the soil is in the finest possible
filth Such careful preparation takes
little extra time, but it is time well
spent
Before beginning operations make a
plan on paper, so that You will know
just what you are going to do Hap
hazard work has no place in well Or
dered garden. Suppose you decide on
space four rods wide and as long as
may be deemed desirable. Then divide
it, as has been satisfactorily done,
about as follows:
Make a walk or turning ground eight
feet wide on the north, west and south
sides. Then, running the rows from
north to south, arrange them is this
way, each division representing row:
-. ~,.":3 Feet.
Asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb.5
Parsnip, satisfy, early peas, fol-
lowed by winter spinach. ..5
>e''' .O
Early potatoes, followed by celery3
EARLY lettuce, radish, cress, mus
tard, followed by turnip. ......3
OAlolS -. i L.
Lettuce, endive, parsley, sweet
BUSH Deans. z IL
Beets, turnips. PIP
Early cabbage, caulifower. ... 2 IL
Late "a hh1pn
Early sweet corn. ...............3
Late sweet corn, summer squash f.
Tomatoes, pole beans. ..........5
Cucumber, musk melons. .........6
Water melons, winter squash. IS
Walk
A vegetable garden laid out in this
way can be cultivated almost entirely
by horsepower, saving great deal
of time and backache. Some hand work
will, of course, be required, but the
amount will be very small in compari-
son with that needed in a garden laid
out in the old-fashioned way. This
saving Of labor, by the way will re-
move large part Of the prejudice en-
tertained by many farmers against
';bothering with {; truck garden. -. The.
enjoyment of having delicious messes
of that same struck all summer
through will pretty effectually dispose
Of the other part.
OF course, other vegetables may be
substituted for those mentioned, ac-
cording to the taste or fancy of the
planter. A row of dwarf okra-a de
icious vegetable for soup-making, too
much neglected at the North might be
added to the list, making the plot about
two feet wider to accommodate it.
We like, too, the idea Of growing flow
ers in the same plot with the vegeta-
bles. They are more easily managed
there than in more formal beds on the
lawn-though we hardly like to dis
pense with them there either.
A farmer who has an abundant sup
ply Of vegetables in variety, with milk,
. eggs, poultry and fruit, can live bet
ter than a prince and be all the health
Ter if he doesn't depend so much on the
pork barrel and the butcher shop.
Isn't it worth while to take the mat
ter into consideration? "
Raising Geese for Market.
Mr. William Rankin of Massachusetts,
in letter to the American Agriculture
list, says it is often wondered why
geese are not more generally raised by
farmers. They possess quite domestic
habits, grace, elegance and beauty, and
the profit accruing from them makes
no small addition to the income of the
farm. The following hints are drawn
from an experience of thirty years
in raising and keeping geese. There
are only three varieties of geese which
need be considered: The African, Toul-
ouse and Embden or Bremen. The
two varieties Of China, brown and
white, although hardy, are not large
enough and do not make pounds enough
Of flesh for the early market. The
writer has been quite successful with
two crosses. those made by mating an
African gander and Embden geese,
and then crossing the young geese with
pure African gander. The most per-
feet geese are the pure-bred African
as they mature earlier and lay more
eggs while young, and they are very
vigorous and hardy. It is almost al
ways usual to raise all of them that arc