Use What You Have 
Probably the most important 
principle in good gardening is to do 
everything possible to so condition 
the soil that the plant food it con- 
tains is rendered available. Instead 
of buying plant food use what you 
have. This fact has largely been 
lost sight of by farmers and garden- 
ers in general. They lock up the 
plant food by improper methods 
and then find their soil unproduc- 
tive. They reason that the land is 
deficient in some plant food and 
they proceed to apply chemical fer- 
tilizers. The old slogan: ‘“‘There is 
plenty of gold in the farm, boys, if 
you’ll only shovel it out’, might be 
changed to read: “There is plenty 
of food in the soil, boys, if you’ll only 
let it grow out.” 
Don’t Mix Mud 
In this connection we would em- 
phasize that great damage is done to 
the soil by working it wet. The old 
rule is to take a hand full of soil and 
squeeze it ate aa the hand, then 
