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PLANTING TIP: Fill a shallow box or flat with fine soil or 
builder’s sand and soil. Make shallow depressions with a straight- 
edge flat stick. Scatter seed from packet . . . not too thickly. 
Cover with soil and tamp down with the flat of hand or smooth 
PLANTING TIP: Be sure and plant your rows even and straight. 
This will give you a neat garden and will simplify it’s care and 
cultivation later. Stretch a cord between two upright sticks and 
work your yardstick or tape measure at right angles to it, A 
board. 
A Word of 
Thanks 
to the Ferry-Morse 
Seed Company of 
Detroit, one of our 
most reliable seed 
sources, for helping 
make this Garden- 
ing Guide possible 
— supplying mate- 
rial which made it 
easier and faster 
for us to get this 
book in your hands. 
sharp stick will make deep enough, even depressions. 
IS YOUR LAWN FULL OF CHIGGERS? 
Chiggers, Fleas, Ticks and Hairy Chinch Bugs can turn your lovely green lawn into 
a place to be dreaded instead of some place you can romp and relax. If lawn pests 
have taken over your grass you will do well to look into the merits of 
STAFFEL’S LAWN DUST 
4 Ibs. 80c (Covers approximately 400 square feet of lawn) 
WEEDING TIP: Get after weeds in the row while they are 
PLANTING TIP. Break up the large dirt clods and do it early in 
the spring and summer before the sun bakes them into hard, un- 
manageable lumps. It is not necessary to pulverize the dirt for 
proper seed germination. Rake out or pick out rocks, nails and 
other foreign matter. 
young and easy to destroy with one clip of the hoe. It is dis- 
couraging to have to tackle them when the roots have grown deep 
and the stems tough. 

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