What About Transplanting? 
Here are 7 ways to have more success in setting out 
your plants from the hotbed or cold frame. 
1. Transplant young plants in the evening or on a 
cloudy day. 
2. Set the plants one or two inches deeper than they 
were growing in the hotbed. 
3. Pack soil tightly around root's. 
4. If soil is dry give each plant about one pint of 
water. Repeat this for two or three days if the weather 
is hot and dry. 
5. To prevent baking and cracking of soil scoop dry 
earth over the moist earth about the plant. 
6. Protect newly transplanted plants from hot noon¬ 
day sun and hot winds with boards or shingles. 
7. Proteot plants from cutworms by wrapping a piece 
of paper around the stem of each plant so that about one inch 
of paper is below the ground, and one inch above. 
Something to 
"TAKE TO HEART " 
"One of the hardest lessons for the beginner to 
learn," says M. G. Kains in his remarkable book. Five 
Acres and Independence, "is that cheap seed is the most 
oostly to buy 1 Why is it cheap? It may be — proba¬ 
bly is ~ not true to name 1 It may be old -- 50 to 
100% dead or at least weak 1 It may have been — proba¬ 
bly has bebn — cheaply and therefore oarelessly grown and poorly 
'rogued’ (if at all) or otherwise carelessly handled. In no 
branch of farming is it so true that the penny wise, pound fool¬ 
ish polioy is so often or so strikingly illustrated as in the 
buying of cheap seed." 
And Roy E. Biles, author of "The Complete Book of Garden 
Magic," says on page 198 of that book, "Poor seeds are expen¬ 
sive at any price. The labor and care needed to raise any 
plants justify paying a few oents more per paokage. Cheap 
seeds are cheaply grown, while good seeds from reputable seeds¬ 
men are grown in speoial soil under expert attention. No won¬ 
der they outdo home-gathered or bargain-prioe products." 
NO ONE can grow a good garden with poor seed. It costs 
little more to have seed you know is good — it costs a great 
deal more in time, back-breaking labor and sweat to toil in 
vain in a garden that will not and cannot grow well. 
