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good work at this time. Eggplant, tomatoes, 

 early cabbage, onions, parsley, peppers, etc., are 

 all to be started before this month is out. 



If the ground softens up so that you can go 

 out on it at all for working, you may sow your 

 grass seed and spring oats and barley that they 

 may get the advantage of spring rains and be 

 well grown before the dry, hot weather sets in. 

 You find many farmers neglecting their stock 

 at this time of year, but it is bad pohcy. Keep 

 up their rations. 



If the storms of winter have strewn your 

 plot with branches of trees and other wreckage, 

 clean it all up; the wisest plan is to burn it. 

 Clean the out-buildings; sort over your seed, and 

 see if any insects have got at them during winter; 

 test them between moist papers or cloths as 

 described, to see which are worth planting; 

 clean out vegetable bins, burying -all decayed 

 vegetables. Be ready to take advantage of the 

 very first of the out-door-planting weather. 

 Every day of preparation now counts for three 

 in results. 



April is a busy month in farm and garden. 

 Preparation-tillage is in order, if the ground is 

 not too moist. Too much stress cannot be 

 laid upon the importance of thorou^ prepara- 



