SOUL-HUSBANDRY. 
BY E. R. CHAMPLIN. 
Our life is all pursuit. 
Think not to eat the fruit 
Of thine own planting; still 
To dig, and set the root, 
While light lasts, is God’s will. 
To sow our seed, and care 
That with it falls no tare,— 
That it is nurtured well,— 
Is ours; not ours to share 
The fruitage we foretell. 
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’Tis ours indeed, to taste 
But rarely, and with haste, 
The fruit that others grew; 
But still the way they traced 
To steadfastly pursue. 
But when at last the grain 
We sowed is gathered in, 
Thro’ labors hard and long, 
And spite of seeds of sin, 
We’ll feast, with rest and song ! 
A Garden Without Weeds. 
If one would have a good garden it should 
be free from foul seeds. I think nine out 
of ten of the gardens among farmers are 
allowed to mature a crop of weeds the lat¬ 
ter part of the season, and usually this is 
the result of carelessness. After June, or 
when such early crops as Peas, Lettuce and 
Radishes have matured, no further use is 
made of the land, and as it has usually 
been manured in the spring, it grows a 
lusty crop of weeds, and fills the soil so full 
of seeds as to quadruple the work of culti¬ 
vation of such plants as come up delicately, 
and which must be kept clean by hand. 
The evil of ripening a crop of weed seed is 
not short lived, for the seeds will remain in 
the soil for many years and germinate 
when the spring opens. I have a one-fourth 
acre garden that I have not allowed a 
weed to go to seed on for twenty years, but 
it took five years of clean culture before I 
could see much improvement in it, and it 
was ten years before the old seed in the soil 
ceased to give trouble. As an aid to keep¬ 
ing the garden free from weeds, plant 
everything in rows running the length of 
it, and put together those varieties which 
will ripen about the same time. For exam¬ 
ple, one of the narrow lands or beds I speak 
of can be planted in early Peas, Lettuce, 
Spinach and Radishes, and these will all be 
past use in June, when the ground can be 
worked by horse power till mellow. Then 
follow with some later crops, as Cucumbers 
or Sweet Corn. Another bed can be plant¬ 
ed in Potatoes, and the middle of June, 
Hubbard, or some other variety ot good 
winter Squashes planted, and a full crop 
grown. In my latitude, forty miles north 
of Cincinnati, the Hubbard Squash matures 
if planted tin last week in June. If noth¬ 
ing else is wanted, plant Sweet Corn to 
grow fodder for the cows, even as late as 
the last of August, for you will be more 
likely to keep the land clean and you will 
get some benefit from the crop. 
One more point. Make all rows straight, 
not only because the garden looks better 
for it, but much hand weeding is saved by 
it, especially when Canots, Parsnips, On¬ 
ions, &c , are raised.— Waldo F. Brown , in 
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