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SEEP-Tim AH© HAB¥EST. 
Commence Early. 
BY N. J. SHEPHERD. 
If you expect to have early garden veg¬ 
etables, you must commence your garden 
work early. Make your preparations ahead 
so that when the proper time comes there 
need be no delay but everything can be in 
the best condition possible to allow the 
work to be pushed along. A great deal of 
the work of preparation can be done in the 
fall and it is possible you will find it profit¬ 
able to do so. 
If the garden or truck patch has not been 
kept as clean as it should be, clean it up in 
the fall, rake up and bum all the trash, weeds 
and grass left in the garden. Do the work 
as clean as possible. In this way not only 
will a large number of weeds be destroyed 
but the balance of the work can be done 
much easier and next spring there will be 
no interference in the cultivation by weed- 
stalks and tufts of grass. 
If you have planned your garden after 
an economical plan you have your aspar¬ 
agus, rhubarb and herb beds on one side of 
the garden so arranged as not to interfere 
with the plowing of the balance. Then as 
soon as the last crop is gathered plow the 
garden run the plow deep and do the work 
thoroughly. Unless the spot selected is 
very steep, (and I would if possible see to it 
at the start that it was not,) it is a good 
plan to leave furrows so that the water 
will drain off rapidly. Of course when pos¬ 
sible it is much better to have the garden 
tile-drained yet the greater portion of farm¬ 
ers who have gardens simply for their fami- 
li- s will not go to the expense. If the gar¬ 
den is not as rich as it should be now is the 
best time to apply manure. In my expe¬ 
rience I have always found it a good plan 
to use well rotted manure in the garden. 
Coarse green manure is of but little real 
benefit - until it has become rotted and as a 
consequence is almost as much trouble to 
work into a fine condition as the benefits 
derived amount to. 
I have always found it profitable in the 
garden to have the manure well rotted so 
that the soil can be worked up as fine as 
possible. After applying a dressing of 
manure harrow well, this works the manure 
into the soil so that it will be incorporated 
with and by spring will be taken up, and 
in a condition to be of the greatest benefit 
to the plants. 
Early lettuce, spinach, onions and cabbage 
can all be sown in the fall and wintered 
over with profit, and if you want to have 
these extra early, sowing in the fall is the 
surest and quickest plan. The onions need 
only to be mulched well with straw before 
hard freezing weather sets in. Winter let¬ 
tuce and spinach can either be wintered 
over in frames or can be protected by mulch¬ 
ing. Cabbage plants can be wintered in a 
frame and can be put in the hot beds and 
started to gro^v as soon as the seed will do 
to sow and you have gained this much time. 
Of course this means a little work and 
some attention paid to the growing plants 
but if you are successful the extra early 
supply you will have will repay you for the 
trouble. 
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