WHAT TO DO MONTH BY MONTH 



sweeten it; do not use ashes. Apply from two 

 to three inches of well rotted cow manure or 

 horse manure to your garden before digging. 

 Food and humus are both necessary for suc- 

 cess. Chicken manure should be used spar- 

 ingly. Coarse or fine bone meal is a fine addi- 

 tion to stable manure. The plant food is lib- 

 erated slowly from decaying bones. If you 

 observe standing water in various places in 

 your garden, have it drained. Nothing is of 

 more importance. Plants wiU not grow with 

 wet feet, and the soil in such moist places is 

 usually sour. 



Pests. Watch for the tent caterpillar on 

 apples^ cherries and plums. This insect, in 

 the larva stage, builds tents in the crotches of 

 limbs and appears as soon as the buds start to 

 open, devouring the foliage and sometimes the 

 tender stem. Spray the foliage with a poison, 

 arsenate of lead — ^three parts to fifty parts of 

 water — and place it where the insect eats. 

 The poison should be applied after the foliage 

 is dry and with a spray machine — ^hand or 



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