JANUARY: SECOND WEEK 



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Protectors for Early Plants 



There are a number of good machines for applying powder 

 or dust preparations in a dry state. These are less expensive, 

 but when there is a limited amount of work of this kind it 

 is much better to get a good 

 spraying machine, as practically 

 every remedy that is made in 

 powder form can be duplicated 

 in a spray. 



A number of plant protectors 

 of various types are used to 

 keep off frost and insects dur- 

 ing the early stages of growth. 

 All these are useful, but many 

 of them are somewhat prohibi- 

 tive in cost. With a little in- 

 genuity and a few tools substi- 

 tutes for some of them may 

 readily be constructed at home. 

 Garden frames, for instance, may 

 be made of cracker or soap 

 boxes. Deep boxes should be 

 cut in two parts; shallow ones 

 may be used as they are. Simply 

 remove top and bottom, and 

 cover the top with protecting 

 cloth; or drive in " finishing" 

 nails, which will not split the 

 wood, and bend them over so they will hold in place on the 

 top side a pane of glass cut slightly smaller than the outside 

 dimensions of the box. These frames will prove extremely 

 useful in forwarding hills of early cucumbers and melons, 

 lima beans, and a few extra early tomatoes, peppers or 

 eggplants. 



Supports for tomatoes and pole beans may be constructed 

 quickly from 2-by-2-inch or iJ^-by-3-inch scantling and 

 laths, the former being cut into posts five to eight feet 



