Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1913 — The Farm Garden. [ARTICLE]

The Farm Garden.

Too many farmers think they do not have time to bother with so small a thing as a garden. The women and children manage to get the seed sown, but the task of keeping It clean is too much for them, and before fall the garden Is a waving patch of weeds. It Is a mistake to think of the garden as a small thing for if properly managed it will furnish half the living for the family during the summer months-. By laying out the garden in long rows almost all the work of cultivating can be done with horse tools. The modern cultivator can bei adjusted so as to do almost the work of a hoe and an hour or two each week will keep ths weeds down and the soil in the best condition for rapid growth. Another thing that will save much vexation is a chicken tight fence around ths garden. Such a fence will pay for itself in a very few years.—Field and Farmer. '