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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
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A satisfactory rotation may yet be 
effected while keeping these vegetables 
within proper bounds. In following the 
above classification these rotations will 
prove satisfactory: 
Tomatoes after pole beans, turnips, 
beets, melons or squash. 
Eggplant after muskmelon, squash or 
beans. 
Late squash may be grown after early 
turnips the same season, and late cabbage 
after early beans. 
Later varieties of squash may be 
planted between the rows of asparagus 
about June 25 th. 
Late tomatoes and late peas and beans 
may also be planted between the aspara¬ 
gus rows toward the end of the cutting 
season with decided advantage to the 
asparagus. 
Potatoes may be grown where peas and 
beans grew, but cabbage should not be 
grown after any member of its family if 
it can be avoided. 
Where it is convenient to give pole 
beans a permanent trellis of post and wire 
they may be successfully grown year after 
year in the same spot. The posts are set 
six or eight feet apart in rows four feet 
apart, two wires being run from post to 
post near the top and bottom. Light 
twine looped from one wire to the other 
holds the running vines and is easily cut 
down at the end of each season. Early 
radishes, spinach, peas, lettuce, beets, etc., 
may be grown betwen the rows until the 
beans have climbed. 
April Poultry Work 
W HAT most disturbs the poultry- 
keeper's peace of mind at this 
time of year is the broody hen. Even 
among the Leghorns, Anconas and other 
supposedly non-sitting breeds, broody in¬ 
dividuals "are often to be found, and some¬ 
times they are aggravatingly persistent. 
In former days it was considered the 
proper thing to duck the broody hen in a 
pail of cold water or to starve her or to 
treat her in some equally inhuman 
fashion, as though she were a criminal in 
feathers. We have learned better now. 
The poultryman’s object is to get the hen 
into laying trim again as soon as possible, 
and therefore she should have extra good 
care She should be given a crumbly 
mash every da)q with the addition of a 
few table scraps, if any are available, to¬ 
gether with cracked corn and plenty of 
water. She must be removed from the 
nest, however, and put where she cannot 
sit comfortably. A small pen or coop 
without nests and with no litter on the 
floor is a good place for the broody hens, 
and if an active cockerel can be put with 
them, they will soon be broken up. Many 
poultry houses are equipped with a coop 
having slatted sides and bottom and which 
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For the Beginning Housekeeper and the Bachelor Girl 
The Small Family Cook Book 
By MARY D. PRETLOW 
A new cookery book for the beginning housekeeper and for 
everyone who has to cater to two or three persons. It solves 
the difficulties imposed by the average cook book of reducing 
the quantities prescribed, to the limits required and at the 
same time retaining the essential piquancy of the recipe. 
This book is fascinating in its suggestions and menus for 
afternoon teas, informal breakfasts, luncheons and congenial 
foregatherings of bachelor girls. 
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