| HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
March, 1913 
hundred pounds. Two to two hundred 
and fifty pounds will be ample for a garden 
of the dimensions above. If you want to 
take the trouble you can get as good 01- 
better results by the mixing of your own 
fertilizer. One hundred pounds of Nitrate 
of Soda, two hundred of Muriate of 
Potash, three hundred of Acid Phosphate 
and four hundred of high-grade tankage 
— or smaller amounts in the same propor¬ 
tions — will give you a mixture excellent 
for garden use. 
A very satisfactory way is to apply part 
of the plant food in the form of natural 
manure and the rest in a mixture like the 
above, using say half of each. Where 
manure alone is used, it is very advisable 
to use fifty to a hundred pounds of 
muriate of potash in addition as the 
manure is quite certain to be deficient in 
this element. The manure should be 
spread over the ground evenly, just before 
is is plowed or forked up, and the fertilizer 
should be spread on after the ground has 
been turned over, but before harrowing 
or raking. Special fertilizers for some 
crops are used for a “top-dressing - ’ after 
growth begins, but these will be mentioned 
later on, in another article. 
Plaving thus gathered together the raw- 
material, on which our plants are to thrive 
and grow fat, the next question is how to 
prepare in the most effective way. The 
first operation, of course, is that of turn¬ 
ing over the soil where it lies, packed hard 
and cracked after the previous season’s 
tramping and the previous winter’s freez¬ 
ing and thawing. First of all clear off and 
burn any old pea-brush, bean poles, cab¬ 
bage stalks or corn stalks which may have 
been left over, otherwise they will be 
catching in your implements and turning 
up unexpectedly to annoy you all through 
the summer. 
If your garden is large enough to ad¬ 
mit the management of a horse or team, 
have it plowed instead of dug up by hand; 
the job can be done much more thorough¬ 
ly, quickly and cheaply that way. The 
ground should be turned over just as early 
in the spring as it is fit to work, as there 
are quite a number of things that can be 
planted at once. Care must be taken, how¬ 
ever, not to be too previous with this work, 
because if the soil is plowed while wet and 
sticky it may be injured for several 
seasons. If it happens to be heavy, low- 
lying ground, it may have to remain un¬ 
touched for several weeks after your more 
fortunately situated neighbors have been 
able to begin their garden operations. 
The depth to which the soil should be 
turned over is determined by the condition 
of the soil itself. If it is a good garden 
'loam that has been worked for many years 
before, you may be able to work it up for 
six or even twelve inches in depth. A 
pretty safe general rule to follow — except 
where the soil is a very light, sandy one — 
is to turn it over as far down as the “sub¬ 
soil^ which is usually hard, lumpy and of 
a different character from the surface. It 
will do no harm if a little streak of this is 
turned up here and there, but by all means 
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