SEED SOWIXG AND TRANSPLANTING. 



the plants may be placed. When the time comes for planting 

 into the open ground the tine Yvith the plants in them may be 

 lifted with a trowel and placed in boxes, to be carried to the 

 field where the plants are easily placed in the ground. The 

 tins may also be set around the plans on top of the ground 

 to protect them from the sun and wind. (See Fig. 20.) 



FARMER'S KITCHEN GARDEN. 



When Properly Conducted the kitchen garden should be the 

 most profitable part of the farm. Too often its confined area 

 and the laborious methods employed in its management makes 

 the labor of cultivating it out of all proportion to the returns. 

 Instead of confining the garden to a small area, it is better to 

 enclose one or two acres of good rich land with a good wind- 

 break of some kind so that it will make a garden plot twice as 

 long as wide. Leave a headland in grass about fifteen feet wide 

 all around as good crops cannot be grown next to a windbreak. 

 The rows should run the long way of the land, somewhat as 

 shown in figure 21. If the garden is surrounded by a fence it is 

 found a good plan to have the part at the ends of the rows made 

 of movable panels, so they may be removed when cultivating. 



The Arrangement of a vegetable garden in the manner 

 shown in figure 21 makes it large enough for practicing some- 

 thing of a rotation of crops in it and permits of hand labor being 

 reduced to a minimum by the use of horse implements. The 

 land should be cultivated flat, except for a few special crops 

 such as celery. There is no advantage to be gained from hilling 

 up around plants and it is a laborious process that can be dis- 

 pensed with as well as not. When irrigation cannot be prac- 

 ticed it is important to have such crops as celery and late cab- 

 bage on moist soil, but for general gardening purposes a porous 

 clay soil overlaid with a sandy loam is best, although a good 

 clay loam will do very well when properly cultivated. Light 

 sandy soils, especially those that are underlaid with sand or 

 gravel, are too liable to injury from drought to be reliable for 

 general garden operations. The garden should be near the 

 house, so as to be easily accessible. 



In planning the garden it is important to put all the peren- 

 nial crops together, and so arrange the other crops that those 



