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THE MAILBAG 
Cover Crops for Garden 
Here is a typical question. A reader 
has about an acre of land in a small town. 
He wants to keep chickens and have a 
good garden, not this year, but in 1925 
At present the land is grown up into 
weeds and tough grass. Last year he 
had half of it plowed and put in 1,200 
lbs. of lime. He wants a half acre gar¬ 
den and the rest for a chicken pen. What 
is a simple way of getting into action? 
We suggest plowing the other half of the 
acre and then harrowing the whole care¬ 
fully. Seed two bushels of oats and about 
6 lbs. Alsike clover. In the Fall plow 
under the crop grown on the half acre in¬ 
tended for gardening. The oat crop can 
be cut early and either left on the ground 
or taken out for fodder. Plow the half 
of the field desired for the garden aud 
seed half a bushel of rye and about 7 lbs. 
of Hairy vetch. In the Spring plow this 
rye and vetch under and start the garden. 
Let the clover remain on the other half 
and use it for a chicken run. 
Seeding Down Pasture 
Many readers are asking about seeding 
down to new pastures; they want to use 
the ordinary pasture grasses with Alsike 
and White clover, and they think they 
can add 10 or 12 lbs. of Sweet clover so 
as to give considerable pasture the first 
year. In case of a wet season this might 
be fairly profitable. The Sweet clover 
will start early and give some pasture the 
first year. The other grasses are slower 
to start, and in Case of a very dry season 
the quick-growing Sweet clover might kill 
them out, and in any event the cattle 
tramping over the new seeding and eat¬ 
ing the Sweet clover would kill out some 
of the smaller grasses. Generally it is 
better to leave a new seeding alone the 
first year, but by using Sweet clover and 
particularly Hubam it will be possible lo 
obtain some pasture this season, but you 
will take a chance on killing much of the 
permanent pasture out. 
Destroying White Grubs 
Old farmers know that a pasture sod 
or a meadow that has been unplowed for 
many years is usually filled with white 
grubs, and these are very bad on pota¬ 
toes. Where the plow shows large num¬ 
bers of these grubs it is generally unwise 
to plant potatoes the first year. Some 
farmers seem to think that Fall plowing 
will overcome the trouble, and that when 
these pastures are turned over in late 
Fall the frost will kill most of the grubs. 
We have not found it so. Unquestion¬ 
ably some of the grubs are killed during 
cold weather, but there seem to be plenty 
more where the old stock came from. We 
have known farmers to plow an old pas¬ 
ture in the Fall and have a flock of tur¬ 
keys and chickens to follow the plow and 
scratch out the grubs as they are turned 
over. In this way a surprising number 
of the grubs are killed. In other cases 
where grubs are known to be numerous 
a number of little pigs may be turned 
into the field, and they will root out 
practically all the insects in a short time. 
We have known such pigs practically to 
clean a field of these grubs, but unless 
something of this sort has been done in 
addition to plowing, it would be better 
not to plant potatoes on the old sod. 
Lime on Potatoes 
One of our readers asks how much lime 
to use when planting potatoes. We’ 
would not use any lime at all for this 
crop. It is quite likely that on some 
soil the use of lime would increase the 
potato crop, but the great trouble is, as 
we have often stated, that lime increase* 
the amount of scab on the potatoes and it 
is not considered wise for that reason to 
lime potato ground. On seeding Tim¬ 
othy and clover, lime will pay. We 
should use one ton to the acre of ground 
limestone or one-half tone of burnt lime. 
Some farmers ask if they can use lime 
right on the sod. without plowing or 
breaking up the land. Limestone is often 
used in this way. A good dressing of 
ground limestone put on the sod will help. 
The results will be much slower than 
where the lime is worked into the soil, 
but it will prove a benefit in time. 
Denaturing the Auto Hog 
“Two ways of Telling a Snow Story,” 
pags 97, reminds me of many ways of 
telling an “auto hog” story. My first is, 
in our 11 years of “back-to-the-iand,” we 
have had little experience in that line. 
Maybe I should rap on wood three times, 
as many chicken houses in our neighbor¬ 
hood are empty this Winter. A public 
road divides our farm. As one of the men 
walked along that road to a part that is 
hidden from the house by a hill, there 
stood an auto, occupants helping them¬ 
selves. The farm man pleasantly passed 
the time of day and discussed the weath¬ 
er, etc., then said, “Have you enough?” 
The result was, after offering to pay for 
the plunder, which he accepted, an order 
for Winter products and something more 
—a “friend.” I did the opposite last 
Summer. “Not as I do. but as I say,” is 
what a teacher of a young men’s Bible 
class would tell his boys. Nevertheless, 
“do to others as ye would.” mrs. m. m, 
Pennsylvania. 
THE LONG - LIFE BATTERY FOR YOUR CAR 
Drawn by H. L. GROUT for The Electric Storage Battery Co. 
When is a battery cheapl 
^TpHE price is only one—and the least one — 
of three things that tell whether a battery 
is a good bargain. More important considera¬ 
tions are: How long will it last and how few 
will be the repairs? One repair job may change 
the lowest-priced battery into the most costly. 
The true way to put a value on your battery 
is to take the first cost, add the repair bills, 
and consider the length of time the battery 
lasts. Do this and you will find that an Exide 
Battery costs you less than any other per 
month and per year of service. 
Now, even the first cost of an Exide is low— 
with the quality as high as ever. 
EXIDE PRICES are from $16.65 up, ac¬ 
cording to size and geographical location. 
There is an Exide made for every car. Our 
stations, as well as Radio Dealers, sell Exide 
Radio Batteries. 
FARM POWER AND LIGHT 
A great majority of all farm power and 
light plants have Exide Batteries. Make 
sure that yours is a long-life Exide. 
THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY 
PHILADELPHIA 
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133-157 Dufferin Street, Toronto 
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