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AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS 



The garden, when so arranged, can be tilled in the 

 spring and tended throughout the growing season with 

 little labor and little loss of time. In return for this odd- 

 hour work, the farmer's family will have throughout the 

 year an abundance of fresh, palatable, and health-giving 

 vegetables and small fruits. 



The keynote of successful gardening is to stir the soil. 

 Stir it often with four objects in view : 



1. To destroy weeds. 



2. To ventilate the soil. 



3. To enrich the soil by the action of the air. 



4. To retain the moisture by preventing its evaporation. 



FIG. 163. How TO LAY OUT THE GARDEN 



This illustration shows that practically every garden 

 vegetable and all the small fruits can be included in the 

 farm garden, and all the work be done by horse-drawn 

 tools. 



