Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-03
BACKYARD GARDEN
 MOST IMPORTANT
 FACTOR JUST NOW
Realize That Household Ex- penses Can Be Greatly Re-
 duced by Garden Patch.

The home garden, whether on the farm or in the backyards in town, is today perhaps the most important fac tor in the economic welfare of these United States, and agricultural work CTS everywhere are urging that more attention be paid to the garden than has ever before been given to it.
 Frank Dunn, in the March issue of Home and Farm" gives the follow ing advice to the thousands of farm CTS who are readers of that publica- tion:
 'The home garden is not only econ omy, it is good living and good health. While truly worth it's keep and many times over, in savings from the groc- cry bills, that is but a small matter, comparatively speaking. The doctors of today are telling us more and more about the health of a vegetarian. We who are accustomed to vegetables realize the many palatable dishes gleaned from that one-fourth or one half acre soil. I dare say there is no other acre on Sunny Brook Farm or no other farm as for that, which prop erly kept is as profitable as the gar den. All our family are vegetarians. I'm happy to say, enjoy good health and take equal pride in the garden.
 ''Today is the time to start out. Ii you haven't one before, begin today. Usually most vegetables do best i'll light gray soil. It is very much to your interest that this particular spot be fertile If not already so, use ma nure and commercial fertilizer. not sparingly. for it pays. Plant variety of things in your garden. If there be some vegetable you don't already like cultivate a taste for it. Plant at in tervals so as to have fresh vegetables coming on at different times. From our garden we have something ninety per cent of the time, fresh, dried or canned, and it's tremendous saving, too.
 "It would be useless for us to enumerate the many vegetables that will thrive in the South. If you are not already familiar with that phase. catalogue from any seedsman Will tell, and also give cultural directions. Order one today, also start that gar den if you haven't one already.
 'In dwelling upon the progress be- ing made in the South. it would not be amiss to say something about Geor- eia's position along that line. While it is generally noted that the farmers of our state are making a last dltch fight to make a bumper cotton crop this year, with prosperity aboundlnS throughout the state, they want to get rich on high-price cotton. but are go- ing at it in the wrong way. While 1 believe they are making a bad mls- take. it is commendable to say Of them, that they have prepared TOT large grain crop, and are taking steps toward improving the soil,
 Start We'll, but Fail Later. Farm Demonstration Agent c. Fl. Thomas, discussing the home garden, the corn patch, the feed crops, which | are usually planted by the cotton | growers of this section, said yester- 1 day that most of the farmers and
 planters in this section make most i satisfactory start, but fail to handle these crops as they should.
 "You can travel on any railroad. or
 drive along any country road" he
 said, "and you will see that invariably
 the cotton fields are kept in the pest
 possible state of cultivation, while the
 reverse is true of the corn patch and
 the gardens. These latter will always
 be neglected, that the cotton fields might be given all the work possible,
 The result is the corn yield is poor, l causing the states average corn yield per acre to be very low, while the
 same condition exists in relation to
 the garden. The planters should change this condition. Corn and the other feed crops should be given the attention they need, else it is useless
 to plant such crops, for no good re- suits"