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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 policy. 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 thorough prepara- 
