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Rural School Leaflet. 



treated and in the untreated rows. A care- 

 ful record should be kept of the time required 

 to treat the seed and the cost of materials 

 used. After the potatoes are all dug and 

 above accounts carefully made, the student 

 should be required to calculate, at the 

 current price per bushel, the total increase 

 in value due to seed treatment, 



MAKING A GARDEN 



By C. E. Hunn 



I. Preparation of land. If the location of 

 the garden may be secured in the fall, much 

 of the preliminary work could be done 

 before freezing weather, having all leveling 

 done, rough material removed, and the 

 ground ploughed or spaded. Fall plowing 

 is to be recommended from the fact that the 

 winter freezing has a beneficial action on the 

 soil, causing it to crumble and separate into 

 fine particles. It is also possible to work 

 fall-plowed land earlier in the spring than 

 flat lying land. If spring plowing must be 

 done, it is best to start as early as the 

 ground is fit to work. A good coating of 

 barnyard inanure spread evenly over the 

 ground before plowing is always beneficial. 

 Plow to the depth of from four to six inches and harrow the soil fine 

 with a spring-tooth harrow, after which the small stones and rubbish 

 may be raked off with the hand rake, and the ground leveled for sowing 

 seeds. 



2. Sowing the seeds. In sowing the seed it is much better to sow in 

 rows than to sow broadcast. The seedling may be more easily identified, 

 thinning and weeding rhay be quickly done, and the soil between the 

 rows may be hoed without injury to the seedling plants. 



In planting a garden it is best if possible to have the rows extend 

 north and south, each row having its share of sunlight. If the rows are 

 east and west, and one or more rows contain tall plants there is danger 

 of shading the rows in the rear. 



