La Junta tribune., 1908-06-13

EIf you would live long and would
eA3oy what life you do live. get close
70 the soil.
He most effective way TO enforce
!. .1kG pure food law in your Individual
Ave Is to grow your own vegetables.
Before The human animal can do
4n3thing worth while he requires study
9x14 practice. This applies 10 raising
8arden as well as to painting a pie
tnrs
EIhere are artists In all professions.
&xGn in digging bitches. There are
9lro ,laubers and blachsmiihs in all
snll1ngs. and they fail alike in set,ing
IN possibilities out OF any vocation.
II has been estimated that garden
* moi more than seventy feet square
Hfi supply good sized family with
ve4etables for most of the year. 1t
VIII provided the one handling II
tuews how TO make Il garden.
Anerica has led the world in all
lin68 OF development but one-art. II
u now her turn 10 excel in that also,
Art In this case applies not only 10
thoseusei. the scuiptor's chisel and the
stare but to the builder and the gar.
deuer.
ssDoes garden pay:" asks the very
practical person. II is according TO
whose garden it Is. Some people can
make anything pay, and other people
well, are different. II head work is
combined with muscle. the garden GER
tainiy win pay.
Human beings have delved In the
enilsincc the days Jack London writes
3bout in Before Adam" 1t has be-
Sope racial habit That is the rea-
6ol& the commuter hies himself forth
fn3p the big town and raises his four
~ Of lettuce and rs many more Of
l2ad1Aiies and onions In the suburbs.
this world we cannot get some
Ting for nothing. It Is Impossible to
fnEe richness out Of the ground unless
Nt6 put richness Into the ground. II
y0o expect to raise crop. use fer
dIfSer. 10 make n garden without
manure Is like. making bricks without
sffrw.
Most people Imagine that the great
- nations of the world have been
15Qse that did the most fighting. An
Examination of history will show. how
lSer. that they have been the ones that
4ftelopcd the most beautiful environ
41ent-in architecture. in landscape. in
HNn and garden. in statue. painting
1Hl song and finally in mind and soul.
fThere nrc people who imagine that
~ soon as they can dig in the ground
\ nd stick In a few seeds they can
make a garden They regard 1t as
me sort of an Aladdin's lamp per-
44rmance-thcy need only to rub the
XHrlh and nature will do the rest
fter about one or two seasons these
Slks learn better. They ind. as is
3bund In every other thing In life. that
bture works only for those who work
Y pr themselves and who know.
f8 No one can measure the effect OF
I; ;Inyironmenf on the human mind. No
lie. beautiful and artistic surround
'13hxs should produce noble, bfmtif,il
riid artistic characters. The oiit warn
" orld that most Immediately influences
dnian beings is that surrounding the
H60Hie. Here We are most receptive
ini most open TO all that IL highest
3i.l best Who can tell what intaIigi-
&le suggestions aud notifications are
made by y mountain. river or
Irs.at tree OH a soul that habitually
\ ees such an object? The improve
4 Incnt Of lawn and landscape is thus
york for the development Of human
character.
;& Most Of those who write about gar.
3Iening have certain fixed times for
4 blanting things. and a great deal OF
n hat Is 80 written Is misleading II
followed literally. The proper time for
lanting depends on the season. on the
tiiinate and on SO many other condi-
Hons that 1t is hard to lay down a
General rule. II is a tiuIsm that II Is
+ better to SOW your seeds too early than
4 100 late. II they do not come Mp. 1t is
fasy to replant Tomatoes. cabbage.
43ettuce. cauiifiowers and the like
hould Of course be started In hot
beds and should be transplnnted to
he garden us soon as warm weather Is
hssured-about the 1st Of May in the
northern states and still earlier in the
soiIthern. Most vegetables grown d.
rectly from seed should be in the
gr0und almost as sOoI. as II can he
worked. usually In April. The best
rule. however. IL to lie guided by the