The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-14
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
SOME REASONABLE HINTS ON
FARM MATTERS.
HoW to Manage Farm and Vegeta-
BILE Garden SuccessfulIy-- Gel
cry and Ce,eriac--The Corn
Worm-zPalestine Dairy
ingx-Short Notes.
how to Manage q Farm and Veg
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Let us take into consideration the
matter Of farm garden.
Have you planned to have q vegeta-
bic garden this year? If so, why not
have a good one, laid out on generous
scale?
If thing is worth doing at all it is
worth doing well. BY all means have
wei done" garden
we do not mean by that a fancy gar
den, laid out in intricate geometrical
figures, but one, that is planned 80 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 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, tiie-drain the whole plat 1t will
pay to do this in any case, for the soil,
well 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
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
a space four rods wide and as long rs
may be deemed desirable Then divide
1t, as . has been satisfactorily done,
about as follows:
Make walk or turning ground eight
feet wideaon the north, west and south
sides. Then, running the rows from
north to south, arrange them is this
way, each division representing row:
Feet.
Asparagus, artichoke and rhubarh.5
Parsnip, satisfy, early peas, fol
lowed by winter spinach. ......5
L ct'o ......... -
Early potatoes, followed by celery3
early lettuce, radish, cress, mus
tard, followed by turnip. -. 3
onions 1 IL
Lettuce, endive, parsley, sweet
neluS ...'.......... ........... Il IL
Bush beans. . II
Beets. turnips. -. PIP
Early cabbage, cauliflower. 900. 2 L.
Late cabbage.
Early sweet corn.
Late sweet corn, summer squash 4
Tomatoes, pole beans ......5
Cucumber, musk melons. ...6
Water melons, winter squash. ....S
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 a large part Of the prejudice en-
tertained by many farmers against
''bothering with a truck garden" The
enjoyment Of having delicious messes
of that same truck 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 SUD-
ply Of vegetables in variety, with milk,
eggs, poultry and fruit, can live bet
ter than 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.