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House & Garden 
The Time to Divorce 
the House from 
the Garden 
There are times in summer when you don’t 
want the dust and dirt from your garden to 
blow indoors and soil your books, tapestries, 
rugs and other belongings. There are times 
in winter when you don’t want the heat from 
your house to blow outdoors into the garden 
and leave your rooms uninhabitable. 
Monarch 
Metal Weather Strips 
on all your windows and doors will seal every 
crack and opening against drafts, dust, soot 
and rain. 
They keep the home clean and enable a 
smaller amount of fuel to deliver more and 
uniform warmth to every floor. The cost of 
installation is more than repaid through pre¬ 
vention of wastage of heat. 
Now is the time to put in your Monarch 
Metal Weather Strip—rather than later 
when the cold weather is upon you and us. 
Many new homes have Monarch Strip from 
the beginning. To discover how easily and 
economically they may be fitted into homes !! 
already built—look up “Monarch” in the 
phone book for our local licensee—or write | 
us direct—one or the other TODAY. 
Monarch Metal Weather Strip Co. 
4111 Forest Park Blvd. St. Louis, U. S. A. 
“Weather Strips are 100% fuel conservation.” 
U. S. Fuel Administration 
P. B. Noyes, Director of Conservation. 
August 23, 1918. 
Work Among the June Vegetables 
{Continued from page 49) 
Good head lettuce is always acceptable. 
If you cannot use the whole crop, it 
will be easy to give away the surplus 
String beans for table or canning 
should be gathered before any 
beans are developed in the pods. 
This can be easily determined by 
breaking open a couple of pods. 
Spinach and Swiss chard or beet 
tops which are canned green 
should be attended to when very 
young. This means more work 
than when the vegetable is canned 
old, as there is more shrinkage in 
the canning operation. The leaf 
of the old vegetable becomes 
coarser and does not shrink as 
much, but the extra work of 
using the young vegetable is well 
worth the effort. 
Corn Requirements 
It makes little difference 
whether corn be sown in drills or 
hills. The principal factor in de¬ 
termining the quality of the crop 
will be the condition of your 
ground, although this may be 
overcome to some extent even at 
this late hour by proper methods 
of refertilization. While corn is 
considered an easy crop to handle, 
it grows very rapidly and any 
check that it might suffer is cer¬ 
tain to have its effect on the 
yield. The secret of corn grow¬ 
ing, therefore, is to have the 
ground in such a condition that 
the growth is very sturdy. Corn 
is what we might term a dry 
weather crop; therefore, over¬ 
watering would be considered 
dangerous. That is another rea¬ 
son for keeping the corn plantings mature. If planted in drills, the plants 
rather isolated. If mixed with other should be thinned out to at least 12 
crops it might be necessary to water the inches in the row. Closer planting than 
corn when watering the others. this causes soft growth which wSl not 
Ground that is poor can be improved yield satisfactory ears. Another point 
considerably by the application of some well worth considering is that under 
good commercial fertilizer after the most conditions corn will throw out 
corn has developed growth. Most of numerous suckers. It is quite necessary 
these fertilizers dissolve very rapidly that these be removed if high quality 
and are therefore available for the use ears are the objective, 
of the plant a very short time after Most people assume that the principal 
applying. purpose of working the ground is to 
Never allow the corn to crowd. If destroy any weed growth that might 
planted in hills, not more than three exist there. This is of little conse- 
plants to the hill should be allowed to quence at this season of the year, as it 
is an easy matter to destroy 
weeds that are growing at this 
time. The real purpose of culti¬ 
vation is to maintain a mulch of 
loose earth which acts as a 
blanket, covering the moisture in 
the lower soils, and leave it there 
for the use of the plants. The 
rain penetrating into the earth 
after reaching a certain point is 
again attracted to the surface by 
the action of the wind, sun and 
other elements. This is called the 
upward passage of soil moisture. 
When the surface soil is baked 
and hard this moisture is quickly 
dissipated by the elements, but 
where the surface is covered with 
a mulch of any kind, whether it 
be loose earth, leaves or litter, 
the moisture is immediately ar¬ 
rested in its upward passage. 
Also keep in mind that this mois¬ 
ture is impregnated with the 
fertility of the soil through 
which it passes. Therefore, a 
baked, arid soU is casting into 
the air much of its fertility. 
Cultivation and Plant Food 
Deep cultivation is advisable. 
There is very little danger at¬ 
tached to cultivation with imple¬ 
ments that are made for this 
purpose. The surface roots that 
might be destroyed in this oper- • 
ation are more than offset by 
Brush tips are a wise addition to the the deep rooting which is en- 
egg-plant and pepper plantings. Though couraged by keeping the surface 
the plants are not climbers, supports soil stirred. It matters very 
benefit them {Continued on page 68) 
