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The first requirement for a good lawn is good seed. But the best seed 
cant gwe you a permanent lawn unless amply and correctly fed. 
Remember this formula: Good seeding plus proper feeding! 
IT’S ALL A 
MATTER OF BALANCE... 
A balanced diet, complete with 
all the elements needed from the 
soil for proper growth, is neces- 
sary if the things we plant are 
to thrive. That’s common knowl- 
edge among gardeners. 
And that’s why each year finds 
many more gardeners feeding 
everything they grow with 
VIGORO, COMPLETE PLANT 
FOOD. It is proving the answer 
to their gardening problems! 
Long years of research preceded 
the introduction of VIGORO in 
1923. Since that time research, 

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experience and millions of satis-_ 
fied users have combined to — 
make Vigoro the world’s best 
known plant food. Try VIGORO 
on everything you grow and 
see the difference it makes. — 
Economical, easy to use, VIG- 
ORO will help you have a 
lovelier lawn . . . more beauti- 
_ ful flowers, shrubs and trees ... 
a bigger producing vegetable 
plot with less work and at less 
cost. FEED EVERYTHING 
YOU GROW WITH . 

VIGORO PRICES 
1O0Ib. bagi’ s. <5). os eee $4.00 
20. lb." bags... 28 eee 2.50 
25iclb. a bags asks os cee 1.50 
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How much plant food? 
In the home garden the difference be- 
tween scattering plant food broadcast on 
the surface and the newer method of row 
application is so slight that the simpler 
broadcast method is recommended. By ap- 
plying 25 to 30 pounds of a good com- 
plete plant food to your soil over every 
1,000 square feet, you can meet the needs 
of practically any crop you will grow that 
season. While some of the unused nitro- 
gen might be lost by leaching if not taken 
up by plants, this represents perhaps a 
loss of less than 50c in value in the aver- 
age garden. Unused potash and phos- 
phorus will remain and be available for 
crops the following year. 
Side dressing (scattering along the row) 
with sulfate of ammonia or nitrate of 
soda is recommended for all leafy green 
vegetables once or twice during the grow- 
ing season. Ask for directions. 
Breaking up heavy clay 
Breaking up heavy clay soil is a prob- 
lem with many. Liming helps break up 
clays, and since most clays are also acid, 
this helps correct acidity at the same 
time. However, organic matter, weight 
for weight, is much more effective in 
breaking up clays, since one particle of 
humus will pull together or “ball” eight 
times as much clay as will lime. For this 
reason try to apply all the manure or 
compost you can to clay soil. Adding 
sand helps, too, but remember (and this 
is very important) that enough sand must 
be used. If less than one-third the total 
volume of the soil is sand, then the sand 
particles merely act like the crushed 
stone or gravel in a concrete mixture. 
The clay particles flow around the sand 
and form a mixture like cement that 
will bake harder than ever in summer. 
To really break up the clay in a garden 
60’ x 100’ would require avproximately 
200 cubic yards of sand. So unless you 
are prepared to apply liberal amounts of 
sand, don’t use this material. 
Building up light sandy soils is almost 
entirely a question of using enough ma- 
nure or compost, and of growing cover 
crops whenever possible to increase or- 
ganic matter. On small plots, adding 
clay has value, but this is costly unless 
the clay can be had for nothing. 
Buy Plant Foods 
from those who KNOW! 
An excellent rule, in buying plant 
food, is this— 
“Buy only from someone who takes 
your garden to heart!’’ 
We seedsmen want every customer 
to get the best possible results out 
of the seed we sell. We know that 
proper feeding can make or break a 
garden or lawn. And we know what 
is right and what is wrong. 
So each sale of plant food means a 
lot to us! We're vitally interested! 
We want to help! 
Folks who know buy their plant 
foods accordingly. 

