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HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN. 
I wish to grow vegetables on piece 
of ground 50x125 feet, in grass a good 
many years, producing a fair crop of Tim¬ 
othy and some clover. How about ma¬ 
nuring? I have a sugar barrel full of 
almost pure poultry droppings packed in 
hard and covered from the weather. How 
can I use it to best advantage? I could 
secure a load or two of stable manure. 
Will it be necessary? How can I work 
into shape to the best advantage and lay 
out this plot? I wish to grow corn, po¬ 
tatoes and the ordinary garden vegetables, 
and if possible raise some Winter feed 
for a few chickens. \v. M. \v. 
This piece of ground contains nearly 
one-seventh of an acre, and should have 
an application of five tous of well-rotted 
stable manure at least, spread broadcast 
and plowed in, and 300 pounds of air- 
slaked lime, spread evenly after plowing 
and harrowed in. Plow eight to 10 inches 
deep. It is seldom that good garden 
crops can be raised on ordinary farm 
land the first season, especially fresh sod 
land. Usually two to three years of heavy 
manuring and good tillage is required to 
bring the average farm land up to the 
high state of fertility and tilth required 
for the production of maximum crops of 
first-class vegetables. Fresh sod land, as 
ready and sow or plant to some other 
kind. It is keeping the ground constant¬ 
ly occupied with crops in some stage of 
growth that makes gardening profitable. 
The plan submitted is only intended as a 
guide to the laying out of the garden, 
which may be improved upon under cer¬ 
tain conditions, and such changes as to 
the kinds of vegetables grown, and the 
quantities of each, will have to be regu¬ 
lated to suit the requirements of the con¬ 
sumer. If more vegetables can be pro¬ 
duced on the ground than are required, 
a few currant and gooseberry bushes, also 
a few grapevines, may he planted where 
they will least interfere with the culti¬ 
vated portions. The wheel hoe and small 
hand tools are the implements to be used 
iu the cultivation of a garden of this size 
as there is too limited an area to admit 
of horse cultivation. k. 
Dynamite for Planting Trees. 
We are intending to set out 1,000 
trees, both peach and apple, next Spring, 
and were thinking of blowing holes with 
dynamite. We understand that some 
professor of Geneva Experiment Station, 
stated at the Connecticut Pomological 
meeting this week that they had tried it 
and could not recommend it on account 
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VEGETABLE GARDEN PLAN. 
a rule, is very difficult to cultivate to 
small vegetables, and unless patience and 
diligence are a pretty large asset of the 
man undertaking the job, the enterprise 
is likely to prove diseouragingly disap¬ 
pointing. Such land would be much bet¬ 
ter cropped to corn the first year. With 
good cultivation the grass and weeds 
would be pretty well subdued and the 
land be in a very much better condition 
of fertility and tilth for the growing of 
vegetables by the second year. 
The hen manure may be used as a top¬ 
dressing on the ground where the small 
vegetables are grown; also sparingly in 
the hills of sweet corn, in both cases to 
be well mixed with soil. The diagram 
shows a very good plan for the laying out 
of a home vegetable garden, on a piece 
of ground this shape and size, whether 
for temporary or permanent use. If for 
temporary use, then of course the rhu¬ 
barb, asparagus aud strawberries are to 
be omitted, and the ground cropped to an 
annual. The spaces allotted to aspara¬ 
gus and strawberries can be planted to 
sweet corn, sweet potatoes, melons, or 
anything most desired. If strawberries 
are planted, the space allotted to them 
should not be limed. The plot allotted to 
radishes, onions, etc., should not be all 
planted at once; part of the space should 
be reserved for a succession of such 
crops as grow rapidly, and of which two 
or more crops can be grown during the 
season. 
The potatoes aud corn rows are intend¬ 
ed to be a fraction over three feet apart; 
cabbage and pea rows three feet apart; 
tomato, cucumber aud muskmelon rows 
four feet apart; bush, lima, green and 
wax bean rows 30 inches apart; all the 
small vegetables, such as onions, radishes, 
lettuce, etc., rows 16 to 18 inches apart. 
The melons and cucumbers are to be 
planted in hills four feet apart, with a 
hill of early Metropolitan sweet corn 
planted between the hills iu the row 
same day as the melons aud cucumber 
seed is planted. This should be for the 
first crop of corn. Plant the plot allotted 
to sweet corn about two weeks later, 
four rows to Early Metropolitan and four 
rows to Country Gentlemen; both sorts 
may be planted the same day. Between 
the hills of corn, plant green and wax- 
podded bush beans. If early potatoes are 
planted, the crop can he cleared off iu 
time to plant to cabbage, of some large¬ 
headed early sort, for Winter chicken 
feed. 
It should be the aim all through the 
season to have the grouud occupied with 
growing and matured crops. As quick 
as one kind is cleared off, get the ground 
of trees settling six to eight inches the 
second year. Do you know if this is 
right? r. b. o. 
Cheshire, Conn. 
In reply to an inquiry at a meeting of 
the Connecticut Pomological Society in 
regard to the value of dynamite in pre¬ 
paring holes for trees, the following is 
the substance of the answer given: 
Under certain conditions it appears 
that dynamite may be used to advantage 
in preparing ground for trees. On 
strong, rocky land where it is difficult 
properly to dig holes the work may be 
done more quickly, more cheaply and 
more thoroughly than with spade or 
shovel. Thin subsoils impervious to 
water, underlaid by soil of a more 
porous nature, may be shattered to such 
an extent as to permit of more thorough 
drainage and thus greatly improve condi¬ 
tions. More evidence must be available, 
however, before the use of dynamite may 
be recommended for ordinary soils in 
which holes may he readily opened with 
the spade. It is true that trees set after 
the use of dynamite on such soils will 
often make a splendid growth, and it is 
also true that they may make an equally 
good growth without its use. 
Statements have been made by some 
fruit growers using dynamite that under 
certain soil conditions the trees may set¬ 
tle three or more inches during the first 
Summer, and the writer has seen long 
rows of trees leaning at a decided angle 
from heavy west winds, conditions 
brought about by the looseness of the 
soil due to the use of dynamite. The 
adjoining rows, set iu the ordinary way, 
showed no tendency to lean from the 
perpendicular. Two years ago a line 
of work was started at the Experiment 
Station, Geneva, N. Y., comparing the 
use of dyuamite with subsoil, aud the 
ordinary plowing methods. It is too 
early to begin to draw any conclusions, 
but it may be of interest to note that 
after two seasons’ growth no advantage 
could be detected in any way in the 
caliper of the tree trunks, in the length 
of annual growth of branches or in the 
Summer foliage from the use of the dyua¬ 
mite. Differences may, however, develop 
later. It would appear then, that dyua¬ 
mite may be used to great advantage 
under some conditions and that under 
other conditions it might be used iu an 
experimental way until its value has 
been fully determined. o. m. taylob. 
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terest) : “It was in this very room, sir, 
that Wellington received his first com¬ 
mission.” American Tourist: “Indeed! 
And how much commission did he gt*t?” 
—Boston Transcript. 
