428 FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



GARDENING AND SMALL FRUITS. 



BY H. C. KEYX0LD3. 

 [Read at the Fremont Institute, February 3, 1887. 



As all kinds of vegetables do not grow equally well on the same kind of 

 soil, we should select a diversified soil that is properly under-drained. There 

 should be as wide a range as regards deep and shallow tillage as there is 

 difference in the habits and growth of vegetables, as there are those that 

 grow deep and those known as surface feeders. And what ever depth the 

 ground is worked it should be thoroughly pulverized in order to have an even 

 and uniform seed bed. It must have a generous supply of manure, equally 

 well pulverized and worked into the soil. 



Seed for this Northern climate should be of Northern growth, or at least 

 where the season is as short as it is here, as those grown further South in a 

 warmer climate take longer to mature. 



Few operations in the garden are so badly manaajed as the destruction 

 of weeds and grass. Some will begin the season with vigor to keep the plants 

 free and clean, until they are nicely started, then, in the busy season, the plants 

 are left to fight their own way until the crop is spoiled. Others will keep up 

 the fight until the crop is out of danger, and then leave it, feeling assjirecT 

 that they have done their whole duty; but the moment cultivation ceases, a 

 fresh crop of various kinds of weeds will spring up, and in a very short time 

 mature a crop of seeds which will be ready to give the gardener far more 

 trouble another year than would be the labor of continuing the fight until 

 80 late in the fall as to prevent all seeds from ripening. By being thorough 

 in this work from time to time we may save a great amount of labor and 

 secure better crops in the future. 



