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V t - I. i. :.' .'..,rz'1r"-:'-.'--aputh lolina:; Vihniii -Te:;:il 'HmnriA . ' VcLXXV.;.2fr.x'c.: vj.j'-.-'.'v-RALEIGH, N. CJ, JAIIUARY 15,'jMO.1 vy;: " ,J, T7eeklT: $l a Ytar. .: - ,V ' ... I . . I I D MM :0 j ii &3 ffl-va. 1 1 HflW --1 II M. 1 I II - rm and Home Weeldy for North and if If: m IF v. 1; r Thio WooirolFoaturbo; $500 More a Year Farming: By T Winter Plowing . . . T . . . , . , V 27 now- and When to Use Green'-,:.- Blannres . . . ;V: ,;V; How to Grow Asparagus, Beans, Beets and Peas . . ; . . , . . . . . T 30 How to Haye a Garden the Year V X - ' .i . ,v. 23 How the Boys Made Their Big - Corn crops v. .:ivJ. .'.v ;V-. r46 Have a Good Garden This Year, - 84 The Farm Incubator and How to ' v! 4tun It1 The ; Natural CAdantahilltv of thn l! South' to t'OCk Raising . T. . , 88 WhatiWe y'lZzji Bo in. 1010. . . V780- rfTE ESSENTIALS OF, SUCCESSFUL GARDENING. HE first essential 0 successful gardening A? fst -o pocf garden spot, one with a deep, rich, oose, well-drained soil, and one I well enclosed so as to keen ntit fhe. 1iv0 -j r. . ,1 . r r- siuvk una me poultry... t . , l:..:.---,.. i -The next essentials thorough preparation of y the soil, liberal fertilization; and constant culti- ration. : Most vegetables need abundant supplies pf plant food if they are to do their best, and - many gardeners fail simply because they do not Vfeed theiti plants well ,J enough - Wo.' hei stable manure as the basis of fertilization for the ' ' garden,' but it 'should usually be applied in the 57 fall. and'WZ,A.t L'- .in. i ' Ven'ec Mh commercial fertilizers. , ;7 JA third essential is good seed. Jf is useless taexIet!?:thG pest success with any crop if good' 7 seed, are not used: and no falser ' ecnnrimto" nine Uever practiced, than the using of poor seeds in : the garden to save the few" cents extra that goodl f Another essential is good tools. " The hoe, the rake and thespade are atl useful implements, but they must not be depended on for working the garden. Ordinarily the garden should be so laid off that most of the cultivation can be done by horse power; but whether or not this is done, the cultivators, seed drills, and wheel hoes made especially for garden work will pay for them selves in a very short time. A sprayer is an other implement the gardener needs. , ; But the great essential for successful garden ing is a love: of the work, Lord Bacon said of , gardening, 300 years ago: "indeea it is the purest of human pleasures,'! and his words are I true today. Nowhere does "one come into such intimate relationship with the individual plants with which he worksor 'get in closer touch with nature, r And nowhere does one get more sub stantial rewards for, mort pleasant labors. k We have tried to : make the following pages v 'uff ?s Pr??"1 os, may. betried to. make them fell just how to raise , this or that vegetable or fruit, for we know thai there is much need of in struction; along these, linesm But we trust that each reader will feel in them also that love of the garden which should thrill in the heart of every farmer. . This Southland of ours should be a land of gardens. ) The farm without nn ample garden, conveniently1 located, where a varied ; succession of vegetables is kept up the year round, -and 'where berries and : r. . ' . ,.. . ? ,. ,,-..,,,., . ..... ., , . " T il' I IJJUIl nits " 1 oamfr lon&scorcely deserves the name of a farm. Nor do webeli that the farmer has lived: up to his opportunities if he has not founqspqce somewhere and time somehow for the more estheiicsortof gardening, fpr;m fragrant old-time herbs,, for hardy flowers, and clambering vines, and blossoming shrubs. naron jngJs. a work for, every one on tthe farm, for the 'farmer and his wife and his children ; and not until a good gctfeniis recognized as an essential part .of every farm home, ; will country life attain its fullness ' of beauty and , - - 1 . - ,. ,V ........... v. . ... ; ' 3". u w-j
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