1913. 
U'Mre RURAL NEW-YUKKER 
34© 
THE HOME GARDEN. 
Part II. 
The remainder of garden may be 
planted in this manner. Beginning next 
the south fence plant the crops-that will 
be followed by succession crops, and be¬ 
ginning next the berry patch plant the 
vegetables that require the greater part 
of the season to mature. Plant the rows 
so they can be tended with the horse, 
allowing more distance for those that 
spread than those that do not. A bed 
of any number of rows one foot apart 
for the smaller plants to be hoe culti¬ 
vated may be left in one strip where 
they will not be shaded. Plant in this 
strip a bed, using all the rows, say five 
feet long, with May King lettuce for 
early heads, a bed, say 5 feet, of Ice¬ 
berg lettuce for later heads, five feet 
with early radishes sown in the same 
row with carrots; an onion bed of the 
desired size, etc. Use care to plant the 
taller-growing plants to the north, so 
one row will not shade another. Plant 
for succession; as soon as one crop is 
off put in another. Soil as rich as it 
should be in a garden cannot be allowed 
to remain idle. By careful study of the 
catalogues of reliable seed houses one 
can tell what varieties are early and 
what varieties late. Do not plant ex¬ 
tra early varieties for main crop; most 
of them are not intended for it. Buy 
seed from a reliable seed house. Be 
shy of cheap seed usually sold by coun¬ 
try stores. You may possibly get some 
seed a little wrong from a reliable seed 
house which they cannot help; but 
most of them have a reputation at stake 
and try to furnish the best obtainable. 
Beware of commission seeds sold in 
fancy packages. Do not fail to study 
the novelties and specialties of the 
seedsmen; some of them are really fine. 
Try what you think are good, and some 
will prove your friends, others are no 
better than those now on the market. 
If you see an old variety in the special¬ 
ties of a reliable house, it means that 
it is exceptionally good of its kind. 
You may have to try several varieties 
to get one that suits your soil and con¬ 
ditions. Make your selections and or¬ 
der your goods early. There is hardly 
ever a full crop of everything, and some 
of the good varieties are sold out early. 
A word more about plants for the 
garden. If you do not have a hotbed 
have at least a seedbed. This should be 
in a rich, protected spot in close prox¬ 
imity to the house, where it can be 
tended easily. Double glass sash arc 
fine. Use as a cold frame and you can 
start plants almost as early as in a 
hotbed. It does not pay to buy plants. 
Many times you cannot get the varieties 
you desire, and you do not know how 
true the seed planted was. Another 
point worth considering is when you 
have your own plants you can set out 
a few at a favorable time each day. If 
you had to buy them you would have 
to take time to get and set all at once. 
By raising your plants you have a 
chance to try several new kinds each 
year, getting what suits your soil and 
palate. 
A rotation of crops is as essential 
for the garden as for the farm, so each 
year reverse the position of the suc¬ 
cession crops and those requiring the 
greater part of the season to grow. Do 
not plant a hedge around your garden 
to sap the soil. The best fence is six- 
foot poultry wire. Depend more on 
manure than fertilizer, as it contains 
about the only humus the garden gets; 
but a mixture of both is excellent. 
Never put commercial fertilizer in the 
row when planting the garden, but use 
it for side-dressing. One very com¬ 
mon fault with most farmers when they 
set plants in the garden is to wait for a 
rainy day. Then they are set while it is 
raining or as soon as it stops to save 
wetting the plants. This is all right in 
sandy soil, but if the soil is at all heavy 
it should never be done. When water- 
soaked soil is pressed as it should be 
around the plant it forms a hard ball 
as soon as it dries out. This does not 
give the young plant free root action, 
and stunts it. The best time for trans¬ 
planting is as soon after a rain as the 
ground will crumble when worked, just 
before a rain is better yet. When set¬ 
ting plants give ground all the water it 
will take in quickly and draw dry earth 
over top. l. p. c. 
Onions as a Fertilizer. 
J., Canastota, N. Y .—We can get for the 
drawing as many poor onions as we want. 
These onions have been thrown out of the 
storehouse and are being thrown out every 
day iu large piles. We would have to draw 
them one mile. Would you consider them 
worth drawing to spread on the land for 
fertilizer? The most convenient way would 
be to draw them right along as fast as 
they are culled out and spread them on 
the land to plow under next Spring. Would 
this be best, or would it be better to put 
them in piles to decompose before spread¬ 
ing if they are worth handling at all? 
Ans. —A ton of onions will contain 
about 1,700 pounds of water, five of 
nitrogen, five of potash and three of 
phosphoric acid. Comparing this with 
average stable manure we have: 
Nitrogen. P. Acid. Potash 
Manure . 10 0 12 
Onions . 5 5 3 
Thus the onions contain not quite 
half as much plant food as the manure. 
As to whether it will pay to haul them 
—that will depend on the amount of 
work you have for the team. The 
actual plant food in a ton of onions 
is worth not over $1.25. As a bulk 
or humus crop the onion will help the 
soil. The safest way would be to com¬ 
post them with lime or manure and 
thus kill the sprouts. For well hoed 
crops like corn they might be broad¬ 
cast and plowed under, but some may 
grow and these must surely be de¬ 
stroyed, or your fields will be seeded. 
Whooping Cough. 
C. JJ., Oberlin , O .—What remedy can you 
give that will stop whooping cough or re¬ 
lieve it somewhat? There are a good many 
cases of it in this district. 
Ans. —Whooping cough must yet be 
classed with the diseases for which no 
cure has been discovered. There are 
many remedies that afford more or less 
relief, but when these involve the use 
of drugs, they should be administered 
under the watchful eye of a competent 
physician. Whooping cough is a far 
more serious disease than is commonly 
supposed, not that it kills directly, but 
because of its frequent complications 
which may be fatal, and the debility pro¬ 
duced by its long course which predis¬ 
poses io other troubles. Children hav¬ 
ing the disease should be warmly clad, 
and protected from inclement weather. 
They should sleep in warm but thor¬ 
oughly ventilated rooms, as impure air 
is a direct cause of the paroxysms of 
coughing, and in stormy weather it is 
best that they should be confined to the 
house. In naturally feeble children, 
careful attention should be paid to the 
diet that they may be well nourished, 
and enabled to withstand the strain of 
a debilitating disease which commonly 
lasts for several months. m. b. d. 
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