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The Chase Way to Bumper Crops 
for Better Living 
It has been said the only thing you cannot do with a 
Chase P.M.G. is to walk through it, and it’s true. Here are 
just a few pointers on the use of P.M.Gs. which will explain 
just how simple and how easy it is for you to succeed in 
raising bumper crops. First, in using P.M.Gs, you do not 
have to unlearn anything you may already know. It does 
not mean casting away tried garden practices ; it merely means 
‘building up on them. The seed is sown in rows in the normal 
way. The harvesting is done in a similar manner—though, 
of course, much earlier—and the ground needs digging and 
/manuring, 
P.M.Gs. can fit into any 
gardener’s ‘‘usual scheme,’’ 
but it must be borne in mind 
that their use means that the 
soil has to work harder. The 
return every year from a 
piece of ground may be 
doubled or even trebled by 
= the use of P.M.Gs., and it is 
therefore absolutely essential that the necessary plant food 
shall be supplied. The humus content of the soil must there- 
fore be kept high and this point is dealt with more fully at 
the end of the chapter on page 40 (Humus and Q.R. Com- 
posting). 
(a) Preparing the ground 
To grow good crops of anything it is necessary to dig your 
ground deeply, whether P.M.Gs. are used or not, Well-rotted 
farmyard manure or composted vegetable refuse should be 
applied at one two-gallon bucketful to the square yard and 
well forked in. If you have not yet started a compost pile, 
then any suitable form of humus can be used. Peatmoss, 
spent mushroom manure, michigan peat, all are excellent, 
and can be used at a similar rate, this being forked into the 
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