THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
655 
It's getting on to the hast call for plan¬ 
ning the farm garden. The best garden¬ 
ers have had the thing all planned and 
marked out for a month, and are now 
ready to start their seed as soon as the 
ground is fit. While it is better to be 
forehanded in such matters, we are not 
obliged to give up a garden even if we 
have given it no thought until now. We 
wish it were possible to make every 
farmer, or every country dweller realize 
all that a good garden will mean this 
Summer. Look at it from any point of 
view you like, and the garden may be 
made the real attraction on the farm. It 
will save money. On our own farm we 
get 00% of our living through the grow¬ 
ing season out of the garden. No one 
who has ever tried it can realize what it 
means to have a constant supply of at 
least a dozen vegetables ready for pick¬ 
ing. The meat bills, the bread bills, and 
every other bill that means a hole in the 
pocketbook, and sweat in the kitchen, 
Short Garden Notes. 
Bkowallia. —I always try something 
new in my flower garden each year. Last 
year it was Browallia. It is valuable for 
the rich blue color of its flowers. It 
blooms plentifully and the flowers are 
pretty, though small. 
Diant ires.—No one can imagine the 
variety of color from a five-eent package 
of Diauthus. I had all shades of red and 
pink, some double, some variegated, and 
the beauty of it is that the plants last 
two or three years if the ground about 
the roots is protected by straw or leaves. 
They are not so hardy when more than 
three years old. and I plant some every 
year for a succession. This year I am 
trying Chabaud’s Everhlooining and Mar¬ 
guerite carnations, which have the clove 
odor, they say. The young seedlings are 
a little apt to damp off. but I have plenty 
of plants so far. 
Protecting tile Hands. —To prevent 
can be cut down through a good garden. 
A good garden, too. leads to better farm¬ 
ing. There is no chance for an argument 
about that. Let any man see for himself 
what extra manuring and careful culture 
will do, and he comes to be ashamed of 
himself to think of spending his time and 
energy over an acre half cared for, while 
lie can by giving garden culture, or some¬ 
thing like it. produce the same amount of 
food on one-third of an acre. Thus the 
garden operates like some of these bac¬ 
teria wh'ich do their work in a certain 
part of the soil, and finally spread here 
and there as the seed or the soil is scat¬ 
tered. Then there is another side to it. 
No one can understand until they have 
had the experience, the real joy which 
Comes to an intelligent person at the 
thought of conquering a piece of land and 
making it doubly productive. One must 
have this experience in order to appreciate 
it. We have seen many an old man who 
worked hard to save a farm, reach the 
time of life when he could no longer plow 
<>r dig. or chop with full strength. Some 
of these men pass what ought to be the 
best years of their life grieving and 
grumbling because they can no longer do 
hard work upon the farm. There Is 
probably nothing so pathetic as the pic¬ 
ture of an old man passing the last years 
of his life idle and ill at ease because lie 
never learned to do light and effective 
work in a garden. If such a man could 
know the possibilities of working a small 
piece of ground thoroughly, lie would 
realize that the hoe is mightier than the 
plow, and he would obtain far greater 
satisfaction, and far more glory in the 
production of fruits and vegetables and 
flowers, than lie ever did in the produc¬ 
tion of mighty crops of grains or grass, 
or in turning off his flocks and herd. 
Surely a good garden is like the works 
of a clock on a first class farm, and this 
is about the last call for action. We are 
giiiug this week, on this page, useful 
plan of a small farm garden, with an out¬ 
fit of vegetables for a family of four. 
1 his is another plan prepared by stu¬ 
dents of the Connecticut Agricultural 
( ollege. It may not suit you exactly, 
hut a modification of it can be worked out 
almost anywhere, 
garden. Do not 
get down in the soil and forget your trou¬ 
bles. and chop up the high price of living 
with the hoe. 
calloused hands when using a garden 
fork, pull a stocking leg over the shaft 
of the fork, tying the stocking top fast to 
the handle, and letting the lower end hang 
free to the fork part. I grip the shaft 
and stocking wherever 1 like, and in using 
it my hand moves freely up and down 
the shaft, the stocking always between 
my hand and the fork. I have not had a 
callous for years. 
Snap Beans. —I grew Early Bountiful 
beans last year, and never had so many 
and such fine long snap beans. It is re¬ 
lated to Yellow Six Weeks. n. m. 
Massachusetts. 
Mother (to little boy) : “Oh, don’t be 
tiresome and keep on asking impossible 
questions, Percy!” Old Gentleman 
(slightly hard of hearing) : “Don’t scold 
him, madam. I think, if I may say so, 
that it is a duty to help children when 
they are trying to acquire knowledge. 
What is it you want to know, little man?” 
Little Man : “Why do dogs have tails?” 
—Cardiff Times. 
The last call for the 
neglect it this year; 
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They are made for hard service, from the 
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u e cannot tell you all the good features of 
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dealer does not carry them, drop us a card 
and we will tell you how you can easily 
get them. 
G. H. BASS & CO. 
Wilton, Maine 
Makers of 
famous Bass 
Moccasins 
ITERE are a few things the 
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other farmers. Mark with your 
pencil the work it could do for 
you and find out what a useful, 
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wheels crush every lump, working 
down three or four inches, making a 
i fine mellow bed of soil. 
Packs Out Air Spaces—The air spaces 
left by turning the furrow are all 
packed out so that roots will not dry 
out in them. 
I Pirms Loose Soils—Loose, ashy soils 
are made firm so that moisture will 
| gather about the seeds and roots. 
| Stirs Surface for Mulch—The wheels 
\ in the front row form a set of ridges 
: and the wheels in the back gang split 
these ridges, working them over and 
| forming a mulch. 
Saves Moisture in Dry Seasons.—In dry 
weather it packs the soil underneath 
so that moisture will gather, and at 
the same time stirs the dry soil on 
top to prevent evaporation. 
Starts Seed Quickly—After seeding it 
firms the soil around the seed, making 
it sprout quickly, and giving roots a 
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I Helps Growing Crops — Until wheat, 
J oats and corn are two or three inches 
high it will stir the surface like a cul- 
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I break up surface crusts, and keep the 
[field in good condition. Wheels can be 
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