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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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May, 1911 



Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory 



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DON'T KILL 



ceeds add manure to the soil at a regular rate, 

 until the whole border has been treated. This 

 must be done so that the manure will be well 

 distributed in depth, and not merely added to 

 the new surface layer. 



Once made in this way, the border will not need 

 trenching again for some years. The annual 

 digging and manuring will serve to keep it in 

 efficient condition. 



With beds and groups of beds of compact shape 

 trenching as just described is hardly practicable. 

 The better method is first to remove the top-spit 

 over the whole surface of the bed, heaping it close 

 at hand; then to do the same with the lower 

 layer, making a separate heap of it; after which 

 the bottom is forked over and the soil thrown back, 

 mixing well together that from the two separate 

 heaps, and adding manure as in ordinary 

 trenching. With very light or very heavy soils 

 some tempering material must be added. 



On heavy clay soils use sand, fine gravel, ashes, 

 and vegetable matter. Or you may even make 

 the lowest layer of brick rubbish with ashes 

 overlying. This ensures good drainage. Of course, 

 at least two feet of soil must be put above the drain- 

 age layer. The cost and trouble may be more 

 but the results will repay. 



Borders prepared in this way do not suffer 

 from waterlogging, even during wet winters. In 

 hot summer weather they neither bake nor become 

 dry for any great distance down. 



On light soils, which usually owe their lightness 

 to an undue amount of sand, or may consist almost 

 entirely^ of sand, we may add stiff loam and clay 

 to give it greater body and a more retentive char- 

 acter. As such soils are usually deficient in 

 humus, vegetable matter also may be added with 

 advantage. 



Whether the treatment is designed to render 

 a heavy soil lighter or a light one heavier, the aim 

 of the garden-maker should be to secure a well- 

 drained bed or border, the soil of which, to a depth 

 of at least two feet, is of a workable consistency 

 and not likely to suffer from extremes of weather, 

 either in the direction of drought or continued 

 wet. 



In soils of the heaviest kind it may be necessary 

 to introduce subsoil drainage by means of agri- 

 cultural tile, or rubble drains laid at regular 

 intervals over the whole of the ground — not 

 merely beneath the borders. 



On stony land the operation of trenching affords 

 opportunity for removing excess of stones. Screen- 

 ing is not good unless a very coarse screen is em- 

 ployed, because a certain proportion of stones 

 is actually an advantage to the soil, helping to keep 

 it loose and workable. W. S. Rogers. 



Peas, Sparrows and a Hoodoo 



THE English sparrow being a gypsy rogue, is 

 superstitious. Some time ago an old negro 

 gardener taught me this, and how to use the fact 

 in saving my early peas. Uncle Ben says it will 

 work every time, and I have tested it to my own 

 entire satisfaction. 



The garden peas and sweet peas are among the 

 very first things to come up in the garden in spring, 

 and the sparrows think their tender green sprouts 

 are delicious! After having had three successive 

 plantings eaten off clean to the ground, I was 

 ready to give up in despair. I bad breathed out 

 threatenings and spread poison, but the sparrows, 

 day after day, poised themselves daintily on my 

 brush trellises and nipped off the peas. 



Then old Uncle Ben took charge. "Jest give 

 'em white strings to run on," he said, "and de 

 sparrows won't light near 'em." He fixed stout 

 poles, four feet high and ten feet apart, in the 

 rows of newly sown peas, stretched a wire top and 

 bottom, and with a ball of white wrapping twine 

 in his hand, wound the twine up and down over 

 the wires, crossing it to make a lattice work. The 

 sparrows never went near that trellis. 



In the South negroes stretch white twine about 

 a watermelon patch to ward off birds. The crow 

 is epecially wary of a white string so placed. I 

 suppose the sparrows regarded Uncle Ben's pea 

 trellis as some sort of snare, but Ben said it is a 

 hoodoo and he may be right! 



North Carolina. Charles E. Raynal. 



