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{Concluded from page 150) 

 precaution this year against disease and 

 insects. ' Also be careful in the selection and 

 planting of seed. The small seed could be 

 more economically sowed if mixed with dry 

 sand and scattered along the rows. This 

 method insures against planting too thick and 

 obviates the tedious and wasteful habit of 

 thinning out. Of course, those that are 

 thinned out should if possible be trans- 

 planted, but sow thinly this year to make EVERY 



SEED TELL. 



Sow onion seed in the open ground in rows 

 to make sets for fall planting. Prizetaker is 

 a mild onion for table use, and with heavy 

 manuring makes a large onion. Yellow 

 Globe Danvers and Red Wetherfield are good 

 keepers. 



The Worker's Slogan This Year 



QUALITY and quantity should be this 

 year's slogan for, the food producer. 

 Don't waste time and money on experiments. 

 Get seed from reliable dealers, and get well 

 tested varieties suitable for your locality. 

 Thoroughly prepare the soil, lime it and then 

 fertilize intelligently. Fertilizers are ex- 

 pensive. If the wood ashes were saved as 

 recommended these should be mixed with the 

 soil at the time of planting. Acid phosphate 

 with hen manure is fine for onions, and corn 

 and potatoes would profit by the application 

 of hardwood ashes which contain potash. 

 However, deep plowing and liming in the fall 

 helps to liberate the potash already in the soil. 



Have a spring cleaning of the stove and 

 furnace pipes and chimneys and put the soot 

 about the Rose bushes. It is an insecticide 

 as well as fertilizer. 



Peas and beans produce larger crops if 

 inoculated with nitrogen gathering bacteria; 

 this and humus containing bacteria which is 

 used as a fertilizer are on the market and 

 advertised in The Garden Magazine. 



For the Flower Garden 



THIN out and transplant Chrysanthe- 

 mums and other perennials. Sow 

 annuals in the flower borders. 



Spray Rose bushes with bordeaux for mil- 

 dew, and add arsenate of lead to the mixture 

 to destroy larvae of beetles. Use summer 

 strength after the leaves are out. 



Get Your Fruits in Order 



SPRAY peach, plum and apple trees 

 immediately after the petals fall from 

 the blossoms with a mixture of bordeaux and 

 arsenate of lead; the latter against the 

 ravages of the curculio and the codling moth. 

 The spraying should again be done after the 

 fruit has formed, and then two weeks later. 

 See that the vineyard is sprayed right along 

 every two weeks until the last of July. 



Keep orchard trees and small fruits and 

 grapes and indeed all plants and garden 

 truck sufficiently nourished to become hardy 

 and disease resistant. 



It is important to have a good sprayer, and 

 proper spray mixtures, and fertilizers well 

 balanced, and containing humus if possible. 



Helping the House Plants 



HOUSE plants should be repotted and put 

 out of doors. Put drainage at the 

 bottom of the pot — a broken earthen pot 

 is the best. Then put in some loose peaty 

 soil or moss; next a mixture of woods' earth, 

 garden soil, and well rotted manure; one part 

 of each. Ferns could be sunk to the rim of 

 the pots in the garden in a cool, shady spot. 

 J. M. Patterson. 



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