Early Spring Vegetables 



A Yery successful home made trap consists of a 

 large can or crock — a lard can is good, sunk in 

 the ground and a trap consisting of a long, end- 

 less box with about a third of the bottom sawed 

 apart and pivoted on nails driven through the 

 side, so that anything entering at one end will 

 drop through the swinging trap into the can be- 

 neath, which should be kept full of water; this 

 arrangement will catch more moles than any steel 

 trap with which I am familiar, and as the pres- 

 ence of the moles in the garden threatens other 

 vegetables as well as the peas it will be time well 

 spent to prepare one or more of these traps for 

 use when occasion arises; the making of these 

 traps may well be put on the list of rainy day 

 tasks. 



Cutworms sometimes take the peas as fast 

 as they appear above the ground; poisoned bait 

 along the rows before the peas break the ground 

 will dispose of this enemy. Blackbirds often 

 destroy a planting of peas before their presence 

 is suspected and English sparrows have been 



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