HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1911 
win her secret, and then she may be 
coaxed to yield her hoarded treasures less 
grudgingly. Natural fitness and training 
are as essential as self-denial and work 
in farming as in any other line of busi¬ 
ness. 
The danger of haste to get rich applies 
to farming as aptly as to high finance in 
the cities. Paper crop profits are real 
evils of the day. They strike at the root 
of a good many of the failures in the 
country. When large profits are once 
figured out on paper, it is difficult to ac¬ 
cept the actual ones with any degree of 
satisfaction. The disappointment is apt to 
sour and discourage the beginner. 
The Month’s Activities 
(Continued from page 249) 
way to level culture, principally for the 
reason that the level row, represented by 
the base of a triangle, exposes less soil 
surface to the drying action of sun and 
air, than the two sides of the same triangle 
in the mound method. In very damp soil, 
hilling may sometimes be beneficial. 
Plants in rows are usually several inches 
to a foot apart—sometimes two or three, 
as with beans or cabbage. The word drill 
is often used interchangeably for row. 
After planting comes the work of guard¬ 
ing against plant enemies. 
In localities where cut-worms — soft, fat, 
brown worms from one-half to one and 
one-half inches long — are known to do 
mischief, they may be fought in one of 
the following ways. They eat at night and 
keep out of sight in the daytime, but can 
usually be found somewhere within a few 
inches of the plant last cut, and just below 
the surface of the soil. As any plant cut is 
usually entirely ruined, it is better to pre¬ 
vent their doing any mischief than to kill 
them afterwards. Cylinders made of light 
cardboard, stiff paper or old cans with the 
bottoms removed, placed about the plants 
and an inch or so into the soil, will keep 
them away, or they may be trapped by 
placing pieces of shingle or small board 
about, to make shelters under which they 
hide; or by strewing about bran or grass, 
with a few drops of molasses and a very 
light sprinkling of Paris green mixed in. 
If this bait is applied two or three days 
before seeds come up, or plants are set, 
the worms will not be likely to cause any 
trouble. I go to this length in advising 
how to combat these pests, because I know 
from experience how discouraging it is to 
carefully set out a row or two of thrifty 
looking cabbage or tomato plants, only to 
find half of them, a morning or two later, 
cut off clean, with the severed tops lying 
there uneaten! 
When once your seed is in the ground, 
and your plants set out, don’t feel that 
there is nothing to be done for a few 
weeks. Within twelve hours after you 
have stuck in the last tag and hung up the 
garden rake, seventy-three and one-half 
million weed seeds have begun to sprout! 
Don’t give the weeds a start. Begin culti¬ 
vation at once. Don't make the mistake of 
2 77 
Women Do Not Paint 
but they should know something about the paint their painters use. 
“I suppose in nine cases out of ten it is the wife who first sug¬ 
gests that the house is looking shabby and needs repainting,” said a 
friend of the Dutch Boy the other day. 
“Yes,” was the reply, “but she should go farther 
and interest herself in how it is painted. Then she 
wouldn’t have to call John’s attention to the shabbi¬ 
ness of the house so often.” 
When women learn how much longer 
“Dutch Boy Painter” 
Pure White Lead 
lasts than ordinary paint, they will insist on its use always, 
just for the sake of keeping the house looking nice. 
Madame, we have some painting literature 
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