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Making a Garden 
A Southern reader writes: “I have a 
garden 86x200 feet, which was for years 
a stable lot and never plowed till last 
March. Though it was well cultivated 
the yield this Summer was not good, and 
the land evidently is not fertile, as the 
manure laid on the hard clay and the 
drainage carried off the plant food. The 
soil evidently lacks humus. What treat¬ 
ment would you advise to get this clay 
into a more mellow and fertile condition? 
There is another tract of same size ad¬ 
joining this garden which for many years 
was the backyard of a farmhouse. It is 
very hard and is covered with a thick, 
sod of Bermuda grass. I shall shortly add 
this to my garden. I have a gardener 
who is not overworked and plenty of 
teams and implements, and a considerable 
amount of strawy manure.” 
The stable lot accumulated manure and 
this was cleaned up every year and finally 
took all the soil with it, leaving only the 
hard-tramped and puddled clay. Of course, 
breaking this last Spring it did not yield 
well. Had it been broken deeply the 
Fall before and let lie rough for the frost 
to mellow it the clay would have been 
in better condition. I think that it is 
about as much the physical condition of 
the soil as its lack of fertility which has 
interfered with its productiveness. I 
would suggest that it be broken deeply 
now and a ton an acre of slaked lime 
applied and well harrowed in. Then 
cover it thickly with the strawy manure 
and let it lie and rot through the Winter, 
and turn it under in the Spring. Rotten 
loaves and mold from the forest will help, 
too. Then in planting the gai’den crops 
use commercial fertilizer freely, especially 
acid phosphate to supplement the manure. 
The lot covered with. Bermuda grass 
should be plowed now about three inches 
deep, so as to just get under the running 
rootstocks of the grass. Then harrow 
the grass free from the soil and rake up 
in windrows with the hay-rake and haul 
it off to a gully or waste place. Then 
break the land deeply and harrow in lime 
as suggested for the other lot, aud ma¬ 
nure and treat it in same way. 
Then for a time run the two plots sep¬ 
arately, and while one plot is growing 
vegetables grow cow peas to turn under 
and follow with Crimson clover as a 
AVinter cover. Cover the clover with 
manure in the Winter, and turn under 
in early Spring, even if not more than 
half grown. It will have done»its duty 
as a Winter cover. Then use that plot 
for vegetables while the other is being 
run in peas and clover and manure, the 
object being to increase the luimus or 
organic decay in the soil; in fact, to make 
a soil where it has been wasted. Finally, 
when you have a mellow dark soil and 
need the whole for the garden crops, you 
can depeud on manure for the humus and 
use the commercial fertilizers liberally. 
With the accumulation of organic decay 
the potash with which your red clay soil 
abounds will be released, and in addition 
to manure you will need only liberal 
applications of acid phosphate. The 
smothering crops of peas and clover will 
prevent the reappearance of the Bermuda 
grass, aided by the clean cultivation of 
the gai’den crops. About every third time 
the peas are turned under harrow in lime 
again. That is, lime once in six years. 
W. F. MASSEY, 
A Massachusetts War Garden 
I have been trying to grow about 
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manure for eight years. I sow rye and 
oats each year, change to Sweet clover, 
aud this year, it is Alsike clover. This is 
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in late August, I sow clover between rows 
of vegetables, I try to get my potatoes 
in early, so as to mature early. I dig 
those, cultivate, seed to clover, and roll 
some; this gives clover about eight to 12 
inches high to dig in. I have clover sown 
after peas that is in full bloom now, and 
I only have one day per week to take 
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Readville, Mass. 
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