The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-19

cra.w .ban cahhar re. and we have seen
 e tiYne when if cost less labor 10 blow up the onion bed and plant new one than to clean the weeds out ot the old one. We have been all througn the mill We have read tne at,rscliSs s aeoa catalor,,e made out long lists or what we wanted to grow. borrowed money from the, good wife to pay TOT the seeds. hauled manure through the weeds until we were tired. took team from the field to do the ploWtng raked and shoveled and spaded untii our hands were biistered. ana plahssu seeds until our back was broken. We have done all that. ana sometimes we have done more--and sometimes we have given 1t up right there. One of the easiest and most attractive jobs we have ever undertaken was keeping out of the garden after the weather became hot and the weeds had made good start That is one Of the tops we really enjoy. We can not say that we have found it very profitable. but like 1t all the sanne and garden IS almost worth having for that purpose I alone.
 There have been times. too, when the ] pork barrel was low. the meal sack empty and ground hogs hard to catch. and then we have been forced to keep 1 the crab grass in check enough to ai- ] low the coilards to grow-and how I good those coilards did taste when we
 could borrow a bit of pork to cook with them. Collards and pork are whole lot better than going hungry. We have tried both and we know, There is one vegetable which we like
 to grow. and which we always plant
 and that is radishes All we have to
 do is to plant the seed on good soil
 and then the roots are large enough
 to pull before the weeds get fairly
 started We wish all vegetables could
 be grown as easily English peas arc not bad, even though they do need to
 be hood once or twice. Beets ditto
 Cahbages make us tired. The seed has
 to be planted in box and fussed over every cold night, then the young plants
 have to be put in the garden, where the eutwords get half of them. By the time they get ready to make heads the
 worms are sure to make them look like
 sleves. and in July we usually blow l them up and plant the ground in sweei potatoes. And so on through the whole
 list. Nearly everything In the garden | makes us tired. especially in hot weather after three weeks of rain hat
 made a solid sod Of crab grass, the
 onions turn yellow. the tomato plants
 turn black and even the watermelon vines go Into bankruptcy. Tn fact gardening Is tiresome work There is
 just one way in which 1t can be done
 pleasantly. and that is by proxy. w I just love to sit on the fence and SCI
 another man swing a hoe, knowing
 that the good. fresh vegetables be ii
 making will finally show up on ou
 own table. Next to lodging the worl
 ourselves that is the most plesan
 thing about a garden.
 We believe fin having a garden, ant in having q good one. No farmer wh,
 has any self-respect or any care fo the health and comfort of his famil.
 will do without one. Last night VI made out a list of what we wanted il our own graden, and sent a seedmal $5.16 for seeds. We have a good plsc } for a garden, and have given 1t heavy coating of leaves. which we rak : ed up in the woods. and good lot O stable manure.