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MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY 



ter use, is a good selection. Onions and beets 

 transplant readily, and with almost no loss. 



" Be careful in the use of water in both hotbed 

 and cold frame. Too little is better than too much. 

 If you water too often, the plants will damp off; 

 that is, wither in the stem and die. 



" If you cannot raise a 

 good crop of peas or 

 beans, your garden is 

 probably sour. Air-slaked 

 lime, not water-slaked, at 

 the rate of 25 to 30 

 bushels of burnt lime to 

 the acre, will correct the 

 acidity. It is better to 

 spread the lime in the 

 fall. Wood ashes, in lib- 

 eral quantities, put on in 

 the spring, will also 

 sweeten a sour soil, be- 

 sides adding potash and 

 phosphoric acid, and im- 

 proving the physical con- 

 dition of the garden. 

 Never use coal ashes for 

 fertilizer; they have no 

 value. If you have been 

 troubled by wire worms 

 or snails, fall plowing, fol- 

 lowed by an application of kainit at the rate of 

 1,000 pounds an acre, will rid the land of these. 



DIBBLES AND TROWELS 



IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING AHEAD 



" Don't wait till the last minute to plan the gar- 

 den. Plan to get two crops, where possible, in one 



