. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. A GARDEN 137 will do. It is well to plow in the fall, so that the land will settle down and be less likely to dry out. Fall plowing is also helpful in destroying dangerous insects and worms. Early spring plowing will do; but, in either case, much disk- ing and harrowing should be given the land in the spring, so as to make the soil very fine and mellow before the garden seeds are planted This early harrowing helps to warm up the soil and kills many weeds; also retards the evaporation of moist- ure. It is a good plan to use a planker or pulverizer to br
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. A GARDEN 137 will do. It is well to plow in the fall, so that the land will settle down and be less likely to dry out. Fall plowing is also helpful in destroying dangerous insects and worms. Early spring plowing will do; but, in either case, much disk- ing and harrowing should be given the land in the spring, so as to make the soil very fine and mellow before the garden seeds are planted This early harrowing helps to warm up the soil and kills many weeds; also retards the evaporation of moist- ure. It is a good plan to use a planker or pulverizer to break up all lumps, as securing a fine surface soil makes planting and cultivating much easier. Arrangement.—The rows should extend the long way of the garden. Vegetables which are planted in rows close together (12 to 20 inches) as onions, rad- ishes, carrots, beets, lettuce, tur- nips, etc., should be on one side of the garden. Cabbage, beans, peas, sweet corn, potatoes, etc., with rows 2}/^ to 3^ feet apart, should be together. Such running vines as squashes, melons, and cucumbers, which require rows five to seven feet apart, should be together in another part of the garden. This arrangement allows the best use of the horse cult- ivator. If a row of onions and a row of potatoes were planted side l)y side, a good cultivation of the potatoes would be likely to cover the onions. This plan also permits the best use of the small hand drill in planting and of the small hand cultivator in cultivating. Everything possible should be done, in the arrangement, planning and preparation of the garden, to. Figure 60.—Garden arranged for convenient cultivation. 1. Rows 14 in. to 18 in. apart for onions lettuce, beets, radishes, turnips, carrots. 2. Rows about six feet apart for cucumbers, melons, etc. 3. Rows three feet apart for sweet corn, potatoes. 4. Rows 4 feet apart for strawberries, tomatoes, etc. 6. Asparagus 3 or 4 feet from other plants. 6. Rows about 6. feet apart for berry bu
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