Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — As You Sow so Shall You Reap. [ARTICLE]

As You Sow so Shall You Reap.

The season for gardening is close upon us, and the following hints are useful: Pins need a light sandy soil. Sow broadcast. Hoop-skirts should have a top dressing of waist material. Seaweed needs a good deal of irrigation with salt water. Cook and parlor stoves may be set out in about five weeks. Umbrellas need a good deal of irrigation before they will open. Eggs should be sown broadcast in a rich loam, and well harrowed. Now is the time, also, to plant your hogs, so that yon may have baked pig for the Fourth of July. If you have a hot house, try and raise a light spring overcoat. This, however, needs great care. Few succeed. Sow mortgages in about your house. A summer cottage covered with mortgages has a very striking effect. Trim the sausage bushes and see that they grow in a cool, shady spot, so that the fruit, when ripe, shall not fry out in the hot sun.— Graphic.