
standards set for the current year. 
SUCCESSFUL GARDENING 
Hints that may interest both commercial and home gardeners 
SOIL The growing of high quality, tender and succulent vegetables 
requires quick and continuous growth. Good market gar- 
dening land is “quick”; that is, it warms up early in the spring, 
comes speedily into workable condition after rain, is easy to keep 
in good tilth and responds quickly to fertilizing materials. A rich, 
sandy loam is best. Stiff clays are the least desirable. Heavy soils 
require deep ploughing and frequent rotation with leguminous 
crops and the addition of plenty of fibrous material. Sandy soils 
are, as a rule, ploughed rather shallow to compact the under soil 
and prevent leaching. Too much emphasis cannot be placed on 
proper tillage and rotation. Gardeners will find, when soil becomes 
unproductive for some particular crop that changing to another 
crop or seeding down to clover or alfalfa, will result in profit. 
Rotation tends to even up the demands on the soil, no one element 
of plant food being exhausted; leaves the land in good physical 
condition for the following crop and incorporates humus. Other 
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Our most up to date thresher. It will handle Cucumber, Muskmelon, Water- 
melon, Tomato, Squash and Pumpkin. Fruits are crushed by a roller, the 
seed drops through screen on the reel, is pumped into the juice remover from 
which the seed falls into a barrel. 

