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Planting the Farm Garden 
Will you tell me how to arrange a %- 
acre vegetable garden to look its best and 
waste no ground in planting? In plant¬ 
ing rows, such as peas, beets, lettuce and 
other vegetables to be sown in succession, 
should I leave a row or two empty for 
second sowing, or plant a second sowing 
in other part of gurden? C. J. 
The farm garden depends entirely on 
the tastes of the family to be supplied, so 
no definite plan can be worked out for 
any large number. A farmer in haying 
wants beans, potatoes and corn, while the 
gardener who keeps city boarders will 
want the various kinds of greens anti the 
makings of a good salad. Large crops, 
such as corn, potatoes, bonus and cabbage, 
should he arranged together, so that they 
can be cultivated with a horse. Plenty 
of room should be left for the vine crops, 
such as cucumbers, squashes and melons. 
Wo always grow the early crops of let¬ 
tuce, radish, string beans and spinach be¬ 
tween the hills of cucumbers. These are 
6 ft. apart, and do not require the room 
until these earlier crops are. out. 
Rhubarb and asparagus and any other 
crops which remain in the ground over 
one season should be at. one side, so they 
will not interfere with plowing; also the 
root crops, such as salsify, parsnips and 
Swiss chard. This latter will produce 
greens the second Spring, long before any 
can be grown from seed. All the small 
crops should he kept together, and as soon 
as an early crop is out, fill in with a late 
one. For example, early peas can he fol¬ 
lowed by late cabbage and cauliflower. 
Never crowd on the start, for plants must 
have the proper spacing or the best crop 
is not, realized. Put your garden plan 
on paper, order the required seed from a 
reliable seed house, and work according 
to your plan. t. ii. t. 
Sunscald on Apple 
I have a dozen young apple trees, four 
years old, that have grown nicely, but 
this Spring the hark, instead of being 
smooth and grepn. is dark, and very rough 
and scabby. Can you toll me the* reason 
and remedy? o. F. p. 
The trees described were probably af¬ 
fected with sunscald, one of the Winter 
injuries of fruit trees. This injury is 
quite common this year, due to the mild 
days and cold nights. The baric freezes 
and thaws, and the outer layers finally 
die, hence the dark and rough appearance. 
In extreme cases the bark cracks and ex¬ 
poses the inner wood. Tlmrc is little that 
can be done to stop this, and with young 
trees the injury may not. be permanent. 
T. H. T. 
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Smothering Quack Grass 
I have been interested in the advice 
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have cleaned up about 100 acres of No. 1 
quack, and after trying every way have 
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as early in the Spring as we can we plow 
tlu* quack grass sod just as deep as we 
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spear of grass in sight; then roll and use a 
double-disk; keep fitted and plant to po¬ 
tatoes. Keep the potatoes dean, dig with 
a digger, and In the Fall drag over. The 
next Spring we do not plow, as that 
til ings some of the roots to the air. and 
they will grow- We disk three or four 
times and plant to beans or corn. If you 
have been through, flic quack will be dead 
and the roots will make a lot of plant, food 
for other crops. This is the cheapest way 
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master it becomes your slave. 
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Varied Questions 
t. I have several plum trees (the large 
blue plum) that get every possible care 
nud have been standing about 1G years. 
Each year they are white with blossoms, 
start, to develop and then all drop off. I 
have heard that on some plum trees the 
bark is too tight and should he split. Is 
this true, and, if so, how should it be 
done? 2. I have several apple trees in 
the garden of the same age that are kept 
free from grass, etc., and were pruned 
last Spring. During the Summer they 
grew full of little uprights, I should 
judge a hundred of them in each tree. 
Should they be taken out at once, and is 
their growth duo to cow manure? 3. 
What ails currant bushes that get good 
care and spraying, and do not yield year 
after year. They are in a hot. dry place, 
in a garden. Do they prefer shady, moist 
places? 4. Is it advisable to feed beet 
pulp to a cow during her dry period? 
Xctcong, N. J. E. s. 
1. Dropping of plums is described on 
page 371. 
2. Growth of suckers throughout the 
tree was tine to both pruning nud fertil¬ 
izing. Remove about half of the suckers 
now. leaving any which may later work 
into the open spaces as limbs. It is much 
better to take several years to prune than 
to do all in one season and start sucker 
growth as in the case mentioned. 
3. J would suggest a heavy mulch 
around the currant bushes to conserve 
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dry places. 
4. You ran feed beet pulp during a dry 
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