Planting Seed in the Open Ground 



legumes to require repeated replanting and with 

 the enormously advanced price of all kinds of 

 seeds it wiH not pay to take too long chances by 

 undue haste in planting. Usually it is quite safe 

 to plant nearly all of the garden truck by the 

 tenth of May at the north but the weather for 

 the recent seasons has been unusual and much 

 loss was occasioned by adhering too closely to an 

 established schedule ; so, if the season promises to 

 be in any way, excej^t for earliness, abnormal, it 

 is best to go slowly and not trust all one's seed to 

 an initial planting but to hold a little in reserve 

 to replant unfilled areas. Cutworms, too, have 

 caused much devastation the past few seasons — 

 usually these are troublesome to transplanted 

 things, mainly cabbage, peppers and tomatoes, 

 but last year they destroyed beans and other 

 plants impartially, causing much loss. 



In planting a seed drill attached to a hand cul- 

 tivator will be of great assistance as seed may be 

 drilled in rows or di'opped in hills at different dis- 

 tances apart so rapidly that the entire garden 

 may be planted in little more time than it takes 



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