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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1918 



Give the Boy 

 a Chance! 



He is just "itching" for that healthful, in- 

 vigorating exercise that his young muscles 

 will get when pushing a "Barker ! " Besides, 

 the " Barker " will help and encourage him 

 — make garden work fun all summer 

 long. And with it he can do better work — • 

 and more of it — -than ten men can do with 

 the old-fashioned tools. 



THE BARKER 



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destroys the weeds and breaks the surface 

 crust into a moisture-retaining mulch in one 

 operation. Intensive cultivation. Wheel 

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 the necessary soil mulch. "Best Weed Killer 

 Ever Used." Works up close to the plants. 

 Cuts runners. Has leaf guards, also easily 

 attached shovels for deeper cultivation. 



A io-year-old boy can operate it. He can 

 do better work with it than two men with 

 wheel hoes — and we can prove it! 



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JUNE is a busy month for the weeding hoe 

 and spray pump. Be ever vigilant in 

 keeping down weeds, and have a dust 

 mulch to conserve moisture. The 

 success of the garden this month depends on 

 keeping the soil stirred, and constant fertili- 

 zing for quick growing plants like cabbage, and 

 eternal vigilance in spraying to prevent disease 

 and keeping down the insects. 



The asparagus bed especially should be free 

 of weeds. Salt will kill the weeds and be 

 otherwise helpful to asparagus. It is a salt- 

 water plant. The cutting of asparagus should 

 last only two months, so if begun the first of 

 April, as is usual in the middle South, then 

 the cutting should cease the first of June. 

 The bed should be heavily fertilized and the 

 plants allowed to grow; and in the fall cut down 

 the bushes before the seed ripens, so as to 

 throw all the strength into the roots. 



Work to be Done in the Vegetable Garden 



COW seeds of whitloof chicory, brussels 

 ^ sprouts, and cauliflower and fall cabbage 

 in coldframes in well pulverized soil — to be 

 transplanted later into the open ground. 

 Successional plantings of snap beans, corn, and 

 beets should continue to July ist, and begin 

 again the end of August, planting then the 

 early varieties. Sow blackeyed peas, soy 

 beans and navy beans. 



Keep up a continual spraying every two 

 weeks with bordeaux 4-5-50 formula, with 

 2 lbs. of arsenate of lead paste dissolved and 

 mixed with it. The latter kills the beetles 

 and worms on potatoes, cabbages, melons 

 and tomatoes; and the former insures against 

 leaf blight. This spraying is more efficacious 

 if begun as soon as the plants appear above 

 the ground. The squash borer can be eradi- 

 cated if the vines are sprayed when very small 

 and kept up constantly every two weeks. 

 Tomato rot and leaf blight can be prevented 

 in the same manner. 



Make strong stocky plants of tomatoes by 

 pruning away the weak shoots on either side. 

 Either train to one stake or else allow two or 

 three strong stems to grow, training to three 

 stakes. Cut the stakes six feet long, planting 

 them one foot below the ground. Notches 

 cut in the stakes every two feet will hold the 

 twine in place. Wood ashes and acid phos- 

 phate and bone meal about equal parts is a 

 good fertilizer for tomatoes. Too much nitro- 

 gen in the fertilizer makes the stalks spindly 

 and the vines run to leaf. The soil should not 

 have too much humus, but be of a firmer 

 texture. 



Work around the corn, after thinning out to 

 one stalk to every foot for dwarf corn, such as 

 the Golden Bantam and two feet apart for 

 tall growing varieties. Do not dig too deep 

 and disturb the roots, but keep the weeds 

 away. Corn needs constant working (all 

 plants do in fact) to prevent the ground from 

 baking. 



Plant at the end of June or the first of 

 July the main crop of Irish potatoes for win- 

 ter storage. You will find directions for 

 planting potatoes given in the February 

 number of The Garden Magazine. The 

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