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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



Saved $150 in 

 Six Months 



An Illinois poultry raiser bought an 

 International Motor Truck for no other 

 reason than that of spending more time 

 with his chickens. At the end of six 

 months he wrote, "That car has put 

 #150 in my pocket already. When I 

 am at work my time is worth a dollar 

 an hour, sometimes more. On the 

 road it's worth about half as much. 

 That car has saved me two hours a day 

 for six months, 300 hours, one hundred 

 and fifty dollars," 



You may be able to profit as much 

 by the purchase of an 



International 

 Motor Truck 



An Ohio business man says "When 

 I am using my International Motor 

 Truck the expense is about the same 

 as with a team, but when it is not in 

 use it is not eating, and, therefore, 

 costs nothing. After a year's ex- 

 perience, I find the repair bills to be 

 no more than the bills for shoeing, 

 harness repairs, wagon repairs, paint- 

 ing, etc., and there is the added ad- 

 vantage of getting around three times 

 as fast." 



It will pay you in many ways to 

 know all about the International Motor 

 Truck. A letter brings full particulars 

 with many interesting facts and figures 



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starting to grow through old plantations of the 

 above mentioned fruits. That is the time to use 

 the horse and cultivator between the rows, and to 

 do a little hand hoeing. Taking out old canes, 

 perhaps shortening the bearing canes, early culti- 

 vation, and mulching between the rows the last of 

 May, will give you large juicy, good-flavored berries. 



Another very important thing to be done in May 

 is the building up of the soil without animal man- 

 ures, for often the renovation and fertilization of 

 non-productive soil is the greatest problem of garden 

 fruit culture. Probably there is part of the garden, 

 or some plot of land where the soil has become sour 

 and non-productive, or a piece of land you do not 

 wish to use for a year or two for gardening purposes; 

 the very best thing you can do, if the soil is well 

 drained and of a fair depth, and a cultivated crop 

 was grown on it last year, is to seed the land to 

 alfalfa sometime in May. There is nothing else 

 that I have done in many years of gardening that 

 has given me so much satisfaction. The principle 

 I know is right, and the progressive gardener and 

 fruit grower will thus renovate and restore worn out 

 soils with legumes instead of animal manures. 

 Thoroughly plow and harrow the soil, apply one 

 ton of quick or stone lime per acre after plowing, 

 putting it in piles, covering with earth, and spread- 

 ing after slaking. Sow one-half bushel of barley 

 per acre for c. nurse crop, and harrow it in about 

 half an inch deep. Sow 30 pounds per acre of 

 guaranteed pure alfalfa seed and cover with roller 

 or plank drag, giving such tillage as will make a 

 very fine seed-bed. 



When you are ready to use the alfalfa bed, per- 

 haps in a year or two, for a garden, you will find 

 the soil filled to its lowest depth with large roots 

 that have aerated, lightened and changed its tex- 

 ture and composition. In this mass of roots, which 

 are perhaps two or three inches in diameter and 

 several feet long, is the humus and plant food for 

 all your garden crop — alfalfa takes more nitrogen 

 from the atmosphere and mineral food from a lower 

 depth of soil, than any other plant can reach. 



New York. W. H. Jenkins. 



Growing Early Cucumbers 



TO HAVE cucumbers earlier in the spring than 

 one's neighbors affords much satisfaction to a 

 gardener ! 



A method which I used in my garden last year 

 was to plant some cucumber seeds in pots and old 

 strawberry boxes filled with rich soil. It was done 

 about the first week in April. Then the pots were 

 placed in the hotbeds whence the cabbage plants 

 had been removed. The plants were watered often 

 and the frames were ventilated well. 



When the frost was out of the ground and the 

 earth was warm, the plants were set out in the open 

 field. In each hill was put a cupful of quick acting 

 fertilizer, such as bone. The fertilizer was well 

 mixed with the earth, so that the roots of the cu- 

 cumber would not come in actual contact with the 

 fertilizer. Weeds were kept out by cultivation and 

 tobacco dust was sprinkled around the plant to 

 prevent the ravages of insects. The root system is 

 so well developed by the time hot weather sets in 

 that drought does not affect the plants. 



Cucumbers grown in this manner should be 

 ready for use in June. The only cucumbers on the 

 market at that time are the Southern and forced 

 ones. 



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 fruit and vegetables in E-Z Seal Jars. 

 They will keep indefinitely. 

 Most grocers sell E-Z Seal Jars. If 

 yours does not, let us know. 



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