HOUSE AND GARDEN 
228 
March, 1913 
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avoid getting a layer of it on top of your 
good soil. 
If the garden is too small to make the 
use of a plow practicable, and you have to 
resort to having it spaded, see that this is 
done both deeply and thoroughly, as no 
amount of care afterwards will make up 
for slovenly work here. If it is an old, 
well-worked garden soil it may be neces¬ 
sary to “trench” it or dig it two spades 
deep in order to turn it over clear to the 
bottom. In doing this the soil from the 
first row or furrow is thrown up on the 
surface and the layer below it is turned 
over where it is. The surface soil from 
the next row is thrown on top of this, leav¬ 
ing the lower layer open to the spade— 
and so forth for the length of the patch. 
Harrowing should be done with more 
care, if anything, than the plowing, the 
object being to pulverize the ground very 
thoroughly below the surface for three or 
four inches down; then to “finish off” the 
surface itself until it is as fine and smooth 
as it can be made. Modern harrows are 
adjustable so that the same one will do 
both the two kinds of work. The garden 
is thexi left to be finished ofif by hand with 
an iron rake according as it is needed for 
crops. 
Do not be disturbed if it seems to dry 
off very quickly on the surface after har¬ 
rowing, for this is simply a sign that in 
reality the moisture below is being saved 
from evaporation by the “dust mulch” on 
top of it. 
Hints from the Agricultural 
Department 
TN the report of the Department of 
Agriculture for 1912 are found the 
following paragraphs of interest to gar¬ 
deners : 
FOOD HABITS OF BIRDS 
Careful studies have been made of the 
food habits of birds considered injurious 
and of many species that are known to be 
beneficial. More than 50 species of birds 
have been found to destroy the cotton boll 
weevil and 31 have been found to feed on 
the alfalfa weevil which has recently be¬ 
come so destructive in Utah. Special 
studies have been made of the food of 
birds in the fruit-growing districts in Cal¬ 
ifornia and of sDecial generally distributed 
groups, such as the flycatchers, grosbeaks, 
shore birds, and waterfowl. A summary 
of some of these studies, entitled “Common 
Birds in Relation to Agriculture,” has 
proved one of the most popular bulletins 
ever issued by the department, more than 
a half a million copies having been dis¬ 
tributed in recent years. 
GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH 
The gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth, 
two insects accidentally introduced into 
New England, became so abundant and 
destructive in 1905 as to call not only for 
large State appropriations but for govern¬ 
mental aid. Realizing the hopelessness of 
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