The Home Garden 



and loamy, it is a wise thing to add sand enough 

 to make it light and friable, and to make use 

 of such fertilizers as are quickest in effect. It 

 is the early vegetable which will be most highly 

 appreciated. 



It is always well to plan for a rotation of 

 crops as far as possible. In words, give your 

 vegetables new locations each year if you can 

 conveniently do so. This is advisable because 

 most vegetables exhaust the soil in which they 

 grow of certain elements necessary to their 

 satisfactory development, and to plant them 

 in a soil which you know to be lacking in these 

 elements is poor practice. By shifting them 

 about, year after year, we can generally secure 

 favorable locations for them. If not ideal, 

 this plan will certainly be an improvement on 

 the short-sighted policy of confining vege- 

 tables to the same place in the garden season 

 after season. If vegetable-growing is studied 

 in a scientific way we can readily ascertain 

 what elements are extracted from the soil by 

 this, that, or the other vegetable, and the loss 

 can be made good, to a great extent, by the 

 use of fertilizers which can supply the soil 

 with the material from which to construct the 



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