7Q HOW 



'^ TO WORK 



Examine it in 20 minutes, and if there is any- 

 acid present, the paper will have turned red. 

 This test is still being experimented on.* 



If your land is in proper condition to manure, 

 use about twenty-five heaping wagon-loads to 

 the acre before plowing in the early spring, and 

 then use a disc or cutaway harrow until you have 

 made the soil as fine as dust. Then you have 

 good planting conditions. 



How much of the discontent with farming and 

 gardening may have arisen from the old method 

 of planting in beds, it is hard to say. But 

 that cause for dissatisfaction no longer exists. 

 We now plant in long rows far enough apart to 

 allow the use of the wheel-hoe in cultivating 

 the large and small plants alike, without having 

 to readjust the blades. The wheel-hoe is one 

 of the most useful of farm tools, and has done 

 away with most of the back-breaking work of 

 hand-weeding. 



We cannot use the wheel-hoe on beds; that 

 is why we now plant in rows. If your plot 

 allows rows one hundred feet long, you will find 

 one row of any vegetable enough for family use. 

 Let them run crosswise of the slope of the ground 



*NoTE. — -Another way is to mix a little soil with rain water, 

 stir it well, and put the litmus paper in it. Pure rain water is 

 the only water that can be successfully used in this test. 



