
I Draw the Line Here! 
IT still stick to my promise to send any 
newlywed couple who will send me their 
picture a free rose or a free peony, but I 
@hink this is ‘‘pulling my leg’ a little 
bit. Lawrence and Joseph Gallagher who 
sent me their picture didn’t say what they 
wanted so I’m just going to let it go and 
not send anything. Lawrence is 3 and 
Joseph is 1, so I don’t think they'll care. 
Mrs, Chas. Gallagher® of Summerfield, 
AXans. who sent this in says, ‘‘The trees 
---and shrubs in the background were 
“bought from you 4 years ago and they 
sure did grow.” 
Clean Up Your Garden 
Good housekeeping in the garden pays 
just like it does in the house. If you want 
to have a better garden next year than 
you did this, here are a few suggestions 
that might help: . 
1. Rake together all your vine crops 
and weeds and anything that might have 
been diseased and burn them. This will 
kill the weed seeds and ‘disease spores and 
fungous that might live over into next 
year. 
2. Spread plenty of manure over your 
entire garden. 
3. Then have it fall plowed. But leave 
it rough (no harrowing). During the win- 
ter, the manure will rot, the rough 
ground will catch the snow and rain. The 
freeze and thaw will work the soil mel- 
low and smooth and get rid of air pock- 
ets. And then, you’ll be ready real early 
in the spring for the early crops. And it’s 
a funny thing about early crops—they 
like to be planted early. 
Try this once and see if I’m not right. 
How to Fix Okra 
Mrs. M. Wilcox of Pleasant Grove, Ar- 
kansas sent in with her garden seed or- 
‘der, this recipe of how to fix Okra “‘south- 
ern style.” I think you’ll like it as many 
folks do not know how to prepare okra. 
“Cut the tender pods crosswise in thin 
slices. Dust in corn meal and fry in cov- 
ered skillet until partly browned. Salt 
and pepper to taste. This is a favorite 
dish in the south when fixed in this man- 
ner.”’ 
NURSERY STOCK HAS 
MONTHS 
EXTRA TO GROW 

IF YOU PLANT THIS FALL 
; Whoops! 
‘Daddy shouldn’t leave the plumbing 
laying around like this. It makes it 
mighty hard for a little fellow like me to 
get around.”’ 
Mrs. Dorothy Cannon of Holcomb, 
Kans., who sent this picture of her son 
Charles in to me says, ‘One year’s growth 
for both the Silver Lace Vine and for 
Charles Kenneth. Four weeks later, the 
vine was a dense cover for the back gate 
and a sheet of white bloom.” 
Why You Can’t Fall-Plant 
Berries 
Lots of folks write in (and some of 
them are quite mad) because we list about 
everything for fall planting except rasp- 
berries. They can’t see why they can’t 
plant these, too. fr 
I’d gladly list them and supply them 
to you for fall planting, but they just 
wouldn’t do well at all. And after all, 
you want results. You see the raspberry 
is very shallow rooted. When fall planted, 
they aren’t deep enough to avoid being 
caught in the freeze and thaw of winter 
and spring, and will heave out of the 
ground. 
So send in your order for other nursery 
stock this fall, but wait until spring to set 
your raspberries, blackberries and the 
like. You’ll be glad you did. 
Remembers Old Friend 
“Dear Mr. Field: Thanks for sending 
‘Seed Sense.’ I remember as a small girl 
in Calif. that my father received your 
catalog with pictures of you and your 
family in it. I don’t remember how many 
years he patronized your seed house. I 
saw your ad in‘*Farm Journal & Farm- 
er’s Wife’ and. couldn’t resist sending for 
your book. 
‘We plan on a nice big garden here in 
Montana this year.”—Mrs. Harold J. 
Hyer, Polson, Mont. 
ee 
Note of Hope to City Folks (from farm 
paper)—You still can make all the but- 
ter you want and just from common grass, 
too. All you need is a cow and a churn. 



Bringing in the Harvest 
‘Dear Mr. Field: Here is our little boy 
Johnny Bill Beach, 4 yr. old with a big 
haul from Field’s fine seeds. His grandpa 
has used them for many years back and 
we like them just fine.’—Mrs. J. D. 
Beach, Syracuse, N. Y. 
How to Plant in the Fall 
There’s no mystery about fall planting. 
It’s the same as spring planting except 
the plants must be mulched. 
MULCHING: This mulch prevents al- 
ternate freezing and thawing which migh* 
heave’the plants out of the ground. Use 
a covering of leaves or straw or lawn 
rakings. Don’t use leaves alone as they 
may mat and smother the plants. Most 
folks mulch their plants anyway so this 
is nothing new. Z 
ROSES, SHRUBS, GRAPHS, etc.: 
Mound dirt up to cover tops about 8 to 10 
in. deep. Then mulch. Uncover early in 
the spring when danger of frost is over. 
OTHER NURSERY STOCK: Mulch well 
with straw and leaves or manure. Work 
manure into the soil next spring. 
PRUNING: LEAVE TOPS ON PLANTS 
THIS WINTER. Prune severely early 

next spring, before the plants start new — 
growth—not this fall. 
That’s not hard, is it? And keep in 
mind, fall planting gives you a head start 
which almost equals a year over spring 
planted stuff. 
Fall Planting Advantages 
Fall planting is every year becoming 
more popular and most as popular as 
spring planting. Now experiment stations 
all over the country are recommending 
planting in the fall, more and more folks 
are setting out what they want at BOTH 
seasons of the year. Fall has these ad- 
vantages over spring planting. 
1. Plants have 6 months’ head start 
to’become established. THE ROOTS WILL 
GROW ALL SIX MONTHS. 
2. Fall planted stock gets well estab- 
lished to stand the first hot, dry summer 
and have better chances of living through. 
3. Fall planted plants BLOOM THE 
FIRST SPRING, where some -wouldn’t if 
planted in the spring. °* 
4. Usually, most folks are busy in the 
spring and ‘don’t get time to set stuff in 
their gardens that they should. In the 
fall, mostly they have the time. 
Now, if those reasons don’t make a 
believer, of you, all I ask you to do is try 
a few plants this fall and see how much 
success you have.—H. F. 

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