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CANADIAN FARM YEAR BOOK. 



ball of roots. Plant bulbs out of doors 

 for next spring and in pots for Christ- 

 mas biooms. 



'Sow early variety of beans twice 

 this month. 



Salsify now sown and left untouched 

 until next spring will be large and 

 delicious. 



Apple Bud Ready for Main Spraying. 

 September. 



Clean up, bum all litter infested 

 with disease or insects. Get straw, 

 etc., ready to cover half tender plants 

 on approacn of frost. Clean out the 

 store rooms and cellars. 



Take cuttings of tender bedding 

 plants that will give stock for propa- 

 gating in early spring. 



Wateh for early frosts. 



Glean up vines from melon beds as 

 soon as they are frosted. 



Watch the field corn for harvesting; 

 also root crops, except parsnips and 

 salsify. 



Save 20 days on next season's 

 onions by sowing the seed now. 



Put cut your peonies and plant your 

 daffodils. 



Sow in cover crop on all vacant 

 land as soon as possible. Plow heavy 

 soil and rich up. Manure all level 

 land. 



October. 



Good time to plant deciduous plants 

 and shrubs, except those with thin 

 barks and fleshy roots, such as the 

 birch, magnolia. 



Cleau up and bum all diseased 

 plants. Keep on plowing and manur- 

 ing. 



Plant every kind of bulb root and 

 tuber now. 



Bum the asparagus tops and man- 

 ure the bed. Set out new asparagus 

 bed and plant sets of extra onions 

 for use in the spring. 



Put some frozen rhubarb roots In a 

 tub of earth in your cellar, and pro- 



duce rhubarb for pies In the winter 

 months. 



Blanch endive by tying lightly at 

 the tips. 



Pull up cabbage; leave roots on and 

 stand upside down on cellar shelf. 



Rake up leaves and use as mulch 

 for flowers and shrubs. 



November. 



Clean up all diseased and insect in- 

 fested rubbish; put away your tools; 

 get everything covered up for winter. 



Start the mushroom bed. Make 

 your compost heap. Procure sods 

 about three inches thick, pile in layers 

 of grass side down. Between layers 

 of sod put a layer of cow manure, one 

 part manure to three of sod. Turn 

 over twice during winter. Best soil 

 for potting plants. Get the leaves 

 ready to cover over the bulb beds, but 

 don't cover until there are about two 

 inches of frost in the ground. Cover 

 strawberries two to three inches deep 

 with hay or straw. . 



December. 



Protect your new fruit trees from 

 mice and rabbits by the use of tar 

 paper around the butts. 



Store onions in dry place — ^not In 

 the cellar. Spread on bam floor, let 

 freeze solid and then cover. 



Winter pruning and cleaning may be 

 done now. 



Paint gypsy moth nests with creo- 

 sote. Cut and burn the nest of brown 

 tail moths and the black knot on 

 cherry. 



Bordeaux Injury on Apple. 



Cover cold frames for flowers with 

 straw mats and shutters at night time. 



Hydrangeas in the green-house for 

 Easter flowering should have a night 

 temperature gradually increased from 

 45 to 65 degrees. 



