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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1912 
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hold of it, it was grown up with weeds, 
wire grass and blackberry briars. A lit¬ 
mus paper test showed that the soil was 
distinctly acid, a condition that I suspected 
in advance, as it was a heavy clay soil with 
poor drainage. The first step, in early 
October, was to cut and burn all the weeds 
and rubbish on it. It was then given a 
heavy coat of air-slaked lime — about a 
ton for the half acre. The soil was then 
thoroughly plowed and left to rot the sod 
through the winter. During the cold 
weather all the manure I had available 
was hauled out and spread on the ground. 
In the spring the garden was cross plowed 
and harrowed and a portion was desig¬ 
nated to the semi field-crops, such as corn 
and potatoes. The balance was devoted 
to small garden truck, such as peas, beans, 
radishes, lettuce, onions, etc. Everything 
was planted in rows. Beds have become 
obsolete since the day of wheel hoes, but 
that is another story, as this is not an 
article on gardening. 
I had saved about half a load of the 
best well rotted manure that I had and 
this I used to put in the lima bean hills 
and around the cucumbers, tomato and 
pepper plants or wherever I thought an 
extra feed was required. I also had a 
barrel of manure water which I used to 
water the plants that required watering. 
The potatoes and corn were given a treat¬ 
ment of commercial fertilizer. I used 
about 300 pounds to a plot, perhaps a lit¬ 
tle more than a quarter acre in extent. I 
also bought ten pounds of nitrate of soda 
which I applied in liquid form; a handful 
to a watering can of water to the peas and 
beans. This material is simply wonderful 
in its effect upon growing plants. It is 
extremely soluble in water and rich in 
nitrogen. As a whip to the laggards in 
the garden it will produce marvelous re¬ 
sults. Then perhaps you will ask “why 
not use it entirely?” The answer is that 
it is too expensive to begin with and in 
the second place it contains but one of the 
three essential requirements in which a 
soil may be deficient, namely, nitrogen. 
We must also supply potash and phos¬ 
phorous by means of stable manure or 
fertilizer. 
Each year I top dress my garden with 
manure and in the spring buy a, bag or 
two of fertilizer to help out. The result 
is that I always have a good garden. 
Perhaps my conditions are not entirely 
similar to other cases, but the general sub¬ 
ject of gardening is quite similar in all 
cases. We must keep our gardens up to 
a high standard of fertility to obtain satis¬ 
factory result?. 
There is still another way of adding 
humus and nitrogen to a poor soil beside 
adding manure or fertilizer. It is by a 
process known as green manuring. It is 
the process by which a farmer plants a 
crop of clover or cow peas and plows it 
under. All the “leguminoids” or pod¬ 
bearing plants such as peas, beans, alfalfa, 
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