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Nearing the End of the Vegetable Season 
(Continued from page 54) 
leguminous crops like clover. Suitable 
mixtures can be obtained that will give 
a well balanced combination to meet 
various soil conditions. For instance, 
rye and crimson clover are a good com¬ 
bination for sowing now in light soils. 
In heavy soils a combination of winter 
vetch and clover will be found satis¬ 
factory. The point is to sow now, and 
get crops that are hardy to carry over 
the winter. 
There are few soils that are not worth 
the effort of serious cultivation. This 
means that there are few soils so un¬ 
productive that they cannot be quickly 
restored. One of the biggest factors in 
destroying the productiveness of soils is 
the lack of cultivation. The soil bakes 
very deep, losing its moisture. The 
countless numbers of live organisms that 
are constantly building up the soil if 
they are properly protected are de¬ 
stroyed where soils are allowed to sun 
bake. This is equally true of soils that 
have become waterlogged, as these little 
organisms in order to do their work 
properly must have a soil that is well 
aerated, with a fair percentage of mois¬ 
ture as well. This condition is further 
preserved by cultivation. All these con¬ 
ditions are factors in building up the 
soil, and must be taken into considera¬ 
tion. 
To be productive, the soil must be 
well loosened to a considerable depth. 
The old theory of not plowing or dig¬ 
ging deep enough to bring up the sub¬ 
soil has long been abolished. This sub¬ 
soil is naturally improved by contact 
with the air and elements. Where the 
soil is extremely sandy or poor in 
quality, it would not be advisable to 
bring a great quantity to the surface at 
any one time. The purpose of work¬ 
ing the ground is to form a blanket of 
loose earth, which is retentive of air 
and moisture, these being the two big 
factors in the growing of plants. 
Soils that are wet can easily be re¬ 
claimed through ditching. By the use 
of tile drains, which carry off the ex¬ 
cess water and are easily installed, you 
can arrange a drainage system which 
will last for a lifetime. 
Now is the time to give attention to 
new areas that are intended for culti¬ 
vation next spring. Gardens or fields 
that are uncultivated should be plowed 
or dug at this time. It would also be 
a good idea to give this land which 
has been lying idle for some time a good 
coating of lime to neutralize the soil 
acids, and to plow it several times be¬ 
tween now and next spring. 
Collecting Dividends 
The biggest satisfaction in the garden 
and the greatest factor toward success¬ 
ful gardening is the dividends that are 
declared in the way of crops. In many 
cases a good garden is destroyed by 
the incorrect gathering of vegetables. 
They are allowed to become too large 
before gathering. There is no particu¬ 
lar advantage in allowing potatoes to 
remain in the ground after the tops 
have dried up thoroughly, as any con¬ 
tinued wet weather might start the 
tubers into second growth. It is, there¬ 
fore, well to dig your potatoes and store 
them if the plants are well ripened. 
The potatoes after being brought to the 
surface should be allowed to remain 
there for several hours before placing 
in boxes. This sunbath hardens the 
skins, which makes them keep better 
during the winter. Never dig potatoes 
during wet weather, as they will not 
keep well. 
The ripening of the top growth on all 
tuberous rooted vegetables such as pars¬ 
nips, salsify, chicory, etc., is an indi¬ 
cation that the plant has completed its 
growth, and the tubers may be dug any 
time after that period. Immediately 
after the potatoes are dug, the vacant 
spaces should be sown with some cover 
crop to keep the ground clean and to 
add fertility to the soil. 
All crops that mature quickly and 
which cannot be stored for the winter 
should be preserved by canning. This 
is true of corn, lima beans, string beans, 
spinach and tomatoes. Care should be 
exercised that none of these vegetables 
is allowed to go to waste. They should 
be gathered regularly, as any attempt 
at wholesale harvesting in the small 
home garden is certain to result in 
failure. Therefore, the canning process 
cannot be done on any large scale, but 
must be regulated according to the re¬ 
turns from the garden. The point of 
gathering vegetables daily from the 
garden cannot be over-emphasized. 
It will not be long before the garden 
of this summer will be but a memory. 
We can, by a little effort, make our 
garden considerably longer lived than 
it would be if we allowed the first kill¬ 
ing frost to destroy the plants. In 
some cases we have a frost in late Sep¬ 
tember, and in the latitude of New 
Y r ork we usually have a destructive one 
the first or second week in October. 
Lettuce, egg-plant, peppers and other 
crops that are still in the ground can 
be made to live, in some cases, as long 
as the middle of November. Barrels, 
old boxes, heavy tar paper or building 
paper of any description, baskets or 
any material of this kind may be 
pressed into service for the saving of 
our garden. It is well to have the mate¬ 
rials assembled at a convenient point 
in the garden. Wires or heavy string 
may be placed over beans and other 
soft crops to prevent their being broken 
with the covering material as applied. 
Prolonging the life of the garden re¬ 
quires little work and will more than 
repay you for the effort. 
Usin g Sc ulpture in the Home 
(Continued from page 43) 
In this connection it may be re¬ 
marked that every scheme of decoration 
originated by means of the occult meth¬ 
od, because period style is merely the 
taste of some particular epoch, stand¬ 
ardized, regarded as an historical entity, 
and made more or less inflexible. The 
nobility of the age of Louis XV liked 
certain things; they surrounded them¬ 
selves with these things, which per¬ 
fectly expressed the spirit of the age. 
They took something from preceding 
periods, something from China, and 
something from the originality of the 
incomparable artists of the time; then 
succeeding generations recognized the 
ensemble as the Louis Quinze style, and 
made an institution of it. 
Why shouldn’t the American of the 
present day have the same sort of lib¬ 
erty to work out by the occult method 
the sort of home he desires? The 
nation’s art awakening has produced 
painters and sculptors who rank among 
the world’s greatest and by the same 
token the American lover of beauty can 
be trusted to create a style for us that 
will be artistically correct. 
The individual who starts in to sur¬ 
round himself with art objects selected 
by the occult method will find a wealth 
of material. All ages and all countries 
are at his command, from the worthy 
specimens of ancient China, with their 
beauty of mass and line; the extremely 
formal sculptures of old Egypt, and the 
crude barbarities of native African sculp- 
(Continued on page 60) 
