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ELECTRIC LIGHT and 
*— 4 power adds a modern touch of 
convenience—easily obtained with the 
FAIRBANKS-MORSE “F” light plant. 
<J An abundance of steady, depend¬ 
able light is assured with minimum 
attention for care or repairs. The 
plant is extremely simple to operate 
—just touch a button to start and 
another to stop. Your dealer will 
explain its exclusive features. 
Prices—40 light plant complete, 
$325.00 F.O.B. Indianapolis. Dis¬ 
tinctively complete and efficient 
larger “F” plants are offered in 
65 lights—100 lights—200 lights. 
The outdoor storage of root crops keeps them 
fresh longer than the usual indoor system 
The NOVEMBER VEGETABLE GARDEN 
By WILLIAM 
P ROMINENT in the outdoor work 
during November is the proper 
cleaning of the garden, by no means 
a pleasant task. Such a renovation will 
help to keep the insect pests and dis¬ 
eases under control. 
All the dead stalks of plants, all ac¬ 
cumulation of leaves and litter, dead 
vegetables—in fact, everything—should 
be raked to one point and burned. Old 
pea brush, old stakes and other wood 
that will not be used again should be 
added to the clean-up bonfire, the ashes 
from which will be full of potash and 
should be scattered on the surface after¬ 
ward. 
Ground should never be left over the 
winter as flat as when under cultiva¬ 
tion. It should be plowed and left 
fallow, or better still, trenched. This 
aerates the lower soils, permits the frost 
to penetrate better, destroying hosts of 
insect pests. Besides, the constant mix¬ 
ing of the surface and subsoils makes 
a deep blanket of fertile, productive 
ground over the garden. If plowing or 
trenching is too great a task, the sur¬ 
face should at least be roughened with 
a spike harrow; or, in really small gar¬ 
dens, it can be loosened up with a 
hand plow. 
Lime and Its Effect on Soils 
Have you ever put a few drops of 
water into a glass containing some ef¬ 
fervescent drug, and seen the tiny par¬ 
ticles disintegrate when the moisture 
struck them? That is the action soil 
undergoes when limed. Its masses are 
broken up, not only creating a better 
and more friable soil, but releasing the 
natural plant food which they contain. 
A McCOLLOM 
Furthermore, liming corrects the acids 
in the soil and is well worth applying 
for this reason alone, even if it had no 
other virtue. 
In heavy soils, lime can be applied in 
the fall and the ground will be consid¬ 
erably improved by its action during 
the winter. If the ground is left flat 
it can be harrowed in; but where 
trenching is resorted to the lime had 
best be applied in the spring w'hen the 
ground is leveled. Light soils had bet¬ 
ter be limed in early spring for the 
reason that they are porous and the 
releasing of their plant food by the 
action of the lime during the winter 
would result in much of it being lost 
through washing down so deep that the 
plants cannot reach it. 
Fall and Spring Plowing 
The constant working of the ground 
is the secret of soil fertility. Plow now 
if you can—not in preference to spring 
plowing, but in addition to it. This 
will make one more working for the 
soil, one more breaking up of any hard 
soil lumps, one more turning of the 
fertile, well-aired surface soil to the 
bottom and bringing to the surface the 
chemically rich but poorly balanced 
subsoil. 
In plowing, work toward a reasonably 
deep turning of the soil. Too often we 
see fields or gardens worked but 4" 
deep with the plow or spade, and then 
the owners wonder why the plants dry 
out and perish during the first dry spell. 
Under such circumstances the roots get 
no encouragement to penetrate deeply, 
and extensive surface rooting results 
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Banking up the celery with 
earth is one way of blanching 
the late crop 
Luna beatis remaining after 
the vines have died should be 
saved for seed 
