Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-16
Garden (M fHf

Why not shade your back porch with a screen of Lima Beans? The crop may surprise you.
 If you think the home garden doesn't pay, just try going to mark. ct with less than $5 in your pocket. Whats become of the old-time gar dener who planted his potatoes in the Moon? Plant yours in the Earth.
 There are plenty of garden seeds, but the supply of extra good ones is alwoys small. Order early and get the best.
 Every member of the family will require nearly eleven hundred meals this year. How many of these are coming from the home garden?
 Agriculture has made great ad- vances in modern times, but the ad- vice of Pliny the Elder who lived nearly twenty centuries ago is still good for gardeners: Dig deep, ma nure well, work often"
 The bean family is an old friend of man. The ancient Roman family name Fabius is derived from word meaning bean. Adopt Fabian poli- cy and plant beans. No other vege- table is more sure to give return.
 Two cabbage heads are better than one, and twenty are better still. A warm, rich soil is needed for early cabbages. They mature in time to leave the ground free for warm weather crops like beans, tomatoes, and so on.
 Less than $2 worth of seeds are required to plant a small back yard or vacant lot garden. Several of the lection of seeds that are adapted for panting in their territory.
 It does not take very large piece of land to produce all the food for ia human being, and there is still enough idle land in and around cities and towns to grow all the vegetables of certain kinds required by the peo- pie of these towns.
 Jonah's gourd was a strong grow. ing vine. Most of the gourd family including squashes, melons and GU cumbers, require too much space for the small garden. Summer squashes however, both crookneck and scallop or three hills are enough for the av- l craze family.
 The chief virtue of sandy soil is that the roots of plants can pass through it readily; it's chief fault is that it dries out too quickly. Cla, soi, holds water well, but it tends tt pack and harden. Both types of soi need stable manure--it loosens ul clay and helps to hold moisture.
 Out of twenty Minnesota farm. used prior to the war to obtain in formation relative to farm-operatio, costs, only one farm was found wher, there were sufficient vegetables other than potatoes and beans-t, make an inventory All this has now been changed.
 Few gardeners realize the import ance of pulverizing the soil as deepl, as it is plowed. No matter how per fectly the surface is prepared, if tht soil is coarse and lumpy below, tn. Ilants will not thrive. Large ai1 spaces in the soil are detriment but large number of very small ai1 spaces in the soil are benefit.
 A one-thousand acre farm in tn, heart of big city would be consid cred an extravaganza and it's opera tion poor business, but there wer, thousands of acres of gardens righ in large cities of the United State. last year, land they proved the best paying propositions ever thought of, said garden specialist of the United States Department of Agriculture re gently. :
 In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, { Sugarcane industry, one Wholesal, dealer in groceries reports that i, 1917 he sold 10 cars of canned goods and in 1918 only 2 1-2 cars. < On, reail grocerman reports 3 cars dis posed of in 1917 and less than hal. a car in 1918 Another said that i, 1918 he brought no shipments O canned goods into the parish. Thes, men attribute the changed conditions to the large number of vegetabl, gardens planted in that parish dur ing last season.
 Something of the results of tn, seasons garden. work was reflecte, iE the canning record in Louisiana Monroe women and children put III 17,137 containers of vegetables an' fruits during the summer. In Boga lusa, a lumber mill town of 12,OOl population, the kind of place wher interest in anything agriculture usually is hard to find, there were by actual count; 1,7OO back-yar Igardens. The canning record is al so creditable, 10000 pounds of veg etables of all sorts having been pu up last season.