THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



Farm Crops. Sow the lawn with permanent 

 grass mixture at the rate of 2^/z bushels per acre. 

 If July was a wet month, most good hay fields 

 will yield a second crop, which should be cut 

 now. A second cutting of rape is due from a 

 field sowed and cut earlier in the season. The 

 Soja bean sown in May and Japanese millet 

 sown in late June or early July should both be 

 cut and mixed for cow fodder. It can be made 

 into hay or straw in the silo. The latter is the 

 best when there is a silo, but when there is not, 

 or when the crop overruns its capacity, hay 

 made from the mixture is superior to all other 

 fodder for all cattle, whether cows, goats or 

 sheep. 



Garden. In the flower-garden there is gen- 

 erally but little tidying or cultivating to be done, 

 but that should be conscientiously attended to, 

 or the season will be cut short very summarily. 

 In the vegetable garden it is much the same. 

 August is a sort of continuation of July w r ork, 

 and a sort of watching for things to reach their 

 zenith. 



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