Cave-Man Gardeners 
Get Cave-Man Results 
If you have a garden just for the sake 
of the exercise you get out of it, this 
won't interest you, 
But if it’s results you're after—if you 
want better flowers and better crops 
with less labor, then consider— 
Many of the garden tools now being 
used by home gardeners are about as 
out-of-date as the plows made of deer 
antlers and the spades made from 
great animals’ shoulder blades which 
the cavemen used. 
You may not have noticed it—but gar- 
den tool design has moved ahead al- 
most unbelievably in the last decade. 
Some of our recently developed garden 
tools let you do as much in one hour 
as you formerly did in five! Others 
make play out of jobs that have al- 
ways been back-breakers. Hoeing, cul- 
tivating, weeding have been stream- 
lined and speeded up amazingly. 
When we say we can cut your “hard 
labor” time in half, we’re being con- 
servative. Ask us to prove it! 
There’s Ways to Beat 
Rabbit’s Destruction 
It's no mere accident that agricultural 
production has increased so tremen- 
dously the last few years. Scientific 
advancement in the insecticide and 
weed-killing fields has contributed very 
much toward it. The men of the test 
tube and bunsen burner have now 
come up with a chemical to discourage 
the invasion of rabbits into the garden. 
You surround your garden with this 
repellant and it discourages the ma- 
raudings of papa and mama rabbit just 
as though Rover was. standing in 
watching them from the center of your 
carrot patch. 
Where your garden plot is of a perma- 
nent nature, an attractive, rabbit stop- 
ping, fence can be made by stretching 
two-foot high close mesh and planting 
hedge shrubs on both sides. The wire 
will turn all pests that walk, and flying 
pheasants rarely fly over this type of 
hedge if it is closely planted. If a wire 
fence must be used because of space 
limitations, plan on covering it with 
some woody ving. 
When to Lime 
Liming will help break up heavy clay 
and will sweeten acid soil. But don’t 
use lime unless it is needed, since too 
much lime destroys humus. Use only 
when needed. We can supply a simple 
test kit that shows if lime is needed, 
and if so, how much, Litmus paper is 
not enough: it only shows a plus or 
minus riding. A good check on the need 
for lime is the way your beets grow. 
Usually a soil that will grow good beets 
contains enough lime. If you have trou- 
ble with beets, and clovers do not grow 
well in your vicinity, it will pay you to 
have your soil tested. 
Most garden plants do best in a soil that 
is neither strongly alkaline or acid but 
nearly neutral. A soil test of pH 6.0 to 
7.0 is ideal, for most crops. 
A 
PLANT FEEDING 
The ditference between a good lawn—or gar- 
den—and a poor one, more often than not, is 
A MATTER OF FEEDING. The best grass in 
the world can't give you a good permanent 
lawn unless the soil is fed, regularly and cor- 
rectly. Same way with flowers, vegetables, 
shrubs, trees. 
We want to help 
Ask us about 
That's why we say, ‘Talk it over with us!'’ We 
don't just sell plant foods. We want to help 
all we can to make sure you get results. 
Whether it's window box or a hundred acres 
to be fed—we have the right food and the 
"know-how"' and the desire to help! 
Building Windbreaks 
Many gardeners who have experienced 
failure with their summer plantings 
should consider planting a windbreak 
to slow down the force of the hot, dry 
winds that suck moisture from the soil 
and burn up tender seedlings. A sum- 
mer windbreak should be located to 
cut off the prevailing summer breezes, 
usually to the south or southwest of the 
garden. Because garden plots are small 
and because garden plants are low- 
growing, a hedge five to six feet tall 
should be enough. This will not cut 
off breezes from the house. A hedge 
of privet or similar hedging should be 
adequate. 
Vegetable Vitamins 
All fresh vegetables are high in the 
vitamins which we all need for proper 
nourishment, If we could eat enough 
vegetables fresh from the garden, we 
wouldn't need to buy our vitamins in 
pills at the drug store. 
For Vitamin A—eat plenty beet greens, 
broccoli, collards, ‘endive (escarole), 
mustard greens, and spinach. 
For Vitamin B—brussels sprouts, kale, 
green lima beans, and peas. 
For Vitamin C—beet greens, broccoli, 
brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, 
mustard greens, peppers and spinach. 
For Vitamin G—beet greens, collards, 
kale, mustard greens and spinach, 
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