Failure of Grass Seeding 
We have a piece of land, about one- 
quarter of an acre, that has had one coat 
of manure and one of fertilizer. We have 
seeded this lull three times, and the seed 
failed to catch. The soil is light and 
stony. What can I sow this Spring that 
will make hay this year? c. i>. n. 
We cannot tell why the seed did not 
start. There may have beep. something 
wrong with the seed, or the land may he 
too sour. We think lime would help. 
For a fodder or hay crop this year try 
Canada peas and oats. We use one 
bushel of the peas and 2*4 bush¬ 
els of oats to the acre. The peas are 
plowed or disked in and then the oats are 
harrowed in. They grow up together, 
and if cut and cured when the little peas 
are forming in the pod they make good 
hay. We should inoculate the pea seed 
with one of the commercial bacteria. 
Making A Cold Frame 
There is much pleasure and consid¬ 
erable profit in growing garden crops 
under glass in cold' frames. By cold 
frame I mean practically a box covered 
with glass in which nil the heat that is 
- used comes entirely from the sun’s rays. 
The cold frame that I use is made right 
on top of the ground, ie not dug in, and 
is used in the regular garden rotation. 
To make a frame we back-furrow a 
strip across the garden or field as long 
as we wish the bed, making this back- 
furrow about eight feet wide. Generally 
four or five rounds with the two-horse 
plow, plowing the furrows to the middle, 
will make a bed plenty wide. This bed 
is thoroughly harrowed with a disk or 
with a spring-tooth harrow, followed with 
the Acme smoothing harrow or with a 
hand rake to make a smooth surface. 
This bed is always made to run east and 
west. Then two lines of boards are set 
up six feet apart. The north or back 
board is 12 inches high and the front 10 
inches. Then we lay the 3x6 'foot sash 
on and the bed is ready for use. 
In this frame you can grow radishes 
and lettuce, and get on the market two 
weeks before the out-of-door crop comes 
in. That is the time to sell good*?, just 
when the people are real hungry and 
anxious for them. Put on the market 
at this time they are in season, and will 
always sell at a premium great enough 
to pay a goodly profit. There is no out¬ 
lay for a heating system, for the suu 
furnishes all that is needed. 
As soon as the first crop is harvested 
the ground can be fitted again for another 
crop which can be grown in the same 
manner as any other outdoor crop. 
Then late in the Summer, a crop 
of lettuce, spinach or something else 
suitable can be sown, and when cool 
nights comf and there is: danger of frosts 
the sash can be placed on the beds and 
the crop kept growing for a few weeks 
after the weather has killed all the out¬ 
side crops. At this time the market 
will again pay double what it would for 
the crops grown in the open. «o that the i 
cold frame is responsible for the produc¬ 
tion of two crops a year and the selling 
of these crops for double what they 
would bring in the ordinary growing sea¬ 
son. 
The only extra expense connected with 
this method of growing crops is the in¬ 
terest on the first cost of the sash, as 
the working of the soil, rotation, etc., is 
just the same as though the crops were 
grown in the open. The quality of the 
lettuce grown this way is so far superior 
to that grown in the opep,-,tbat the pre¬ 
mium on quality alone will more than 
make up for the little extra labor involved 
in handling the sashes, so that all the 
extra price received for earliness is to 
be credited to the glass. Besides, let¬ 
tuce grown under glass will grow so 
much more rapidly that 10 days or more 
are gained on each crop, so that more 
crops can be grown even in Summer 
weather under glass than in the open 
ground. A slight clouding of the glass 
with whitewash keeps the suu from burn¬ 
ing the plants, and allows them to make 
their growth in partial shade, although 
maintaining a fairly high temperature. 
There is no danger from plant disease 
from contaminated soil by this method, 
for as soon as one season’s series of 
crops is grown the boards o:- frames are 
taken up and moved to another part of 
the garden or farm for next season’s 
operations, and the place the frame oc¬ 
cupied can be seeded down or used for 
ptlier crops. c. o.warford. 
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