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March, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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that is backward can be worked up into 
broad ridges for the planting of a few 
extra early things, like peas, planting on 
top of the ridge. While an emergency 
method of this kind may help temporarily, 
a thorough system of under-drainage 
should be put in as soon as possible—early 
next fall, if you cannot find time to do it 
now. 
Before you begin digging, the manure 
or compost should be put on. That can 
be done before the ground is quite ready 
to dig. But it should be done only just 
before, and, if possible, the very day that 
you are going to "break up the soil.” If 
it lies around on the surface after it has 
begun to decompose it loses much of its 
effectiveness. The best way, if the garden 
has to be dug by hand, is to get at it, and 
get it over as soon as possible. The sooner 
you can get it all dug, the better, even such 
parts of it as will not be planted until May. 
Besides getting the work out of the way, 
this saves moisture in the ground from 
the early spring rains, since water evapo¬ 
rates much more rapidly from ground that 
has not been worked over. Do not, how¬ 
ever, make the mistake of spading up or 
plowing the ground and then leaving it 
that way, raking off a strip now and then 
only as it is needed. It should be pulver¬ 
ized and raked and made fine and smooth 
at once; this to create what is known as 
the dust mulch, which is nothing more 
than the surface of well-prepared top soil, 
which, drying out very quickly to a depth 
of half an inch or an inch, holds the 
moisture in the soil below. 
The deeper you can dig your garden, 
the better, provided you do not have to 
turn up the hard, lumpy sub-soil. How¬ 
ever, a little of this mixed in will not 
make any difference, and where the gar¬ 
den is shallow from not having been dug- 
before, a little of this raw dirt from the 
bottom should be turned up every year, in 
order that the garden may be gradually 
deepened. The deeper the garden, the 
11101 e capacity will it have to store up 
plant food and water for the use of the 
growing crop. 
If there is manure to be turned under, 
the soil in the bottom of each furrow must 
be well mixed with the soil from the next 
furrow that is thrown in on top. If it is 
dug in the usual way so that some of the 
manure is near the surface, this will be a 
constant annoyance throughout the sea¬ 
son. 
Should fertilizer be necessary, spread 
it on after the ground is plowed or dug, 
and rake it in. It will be as well in this 
case, however, to apply the fertilizer to 
each strip of the ground as you get ready 
to plant it. Such parts of the garden as 
cannot be planted soon after they are pre¬ 
pared will have to be raked over thorough¬ 
ly before planting, in order to break the 
crust that may have formed and to destroy 
any small weeds that have sprouted. 
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