Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1915 — FARM GARDEN PROFITS MAY BE MADE LARGE. [ARTICLE]

FARM GARDEN PROFITS MAY BE MADE LARGE.

The ideal farm garden should be 120 by 220 feet, the rows should run north and south, so that each row will get the full benefit of both the morning and evening sun. It should always be located near to the house and contain rich, well drained soil for profitable results. It should contain every vegetable and small fruit that can be successfully grown in the locality. Don’t grow flowers and shrubs in the garden. Every farm should have these, too, but not in the vegetable garden. Let one member of the family attend to the garden work, and if it is given the time and attention it deserves it will not only furnish your family with the best and freshest of vegetables throughout the growing season of the year, but it will return in money more than any acre on the farm. Keep every foot Of the garden busy throughout the growing season. Sweet corn, beans, tomatos, celery, endives and turnips can follow such early crops as beets, lettuce, radishes and peas. The revenue will be doubled and the land will be none the worse for the double cropping if a little judgment is exercised.

“It is better to keep 100 hens and make a profit on them than to attempt to keep 1000 and lose,* is the admonition of Director Qulsenberry. of the Poultry Experiment station at Mountain Grove, Mo. “By having small colony houses substantially built on oak Turmers, you can pull these out into the orchard, clover or corn field. It is important that the ground be cultivated and either oats, wheat, rye, corn or rape be grown. If poultry is kept upon one piece of ground or in small coops or yards continually until the ground is bare, it becomes contaminated with disease germs."

Where a flock of poultry Is unable to obtain all the green feed needed on free range and a plot of ground is available to plant a crop, it is a good plan to put out some cowpeas. Keep the birds off the peas until the plants have made a good growth and then they should not be allowed on the crop In such numbers or for so long a time as to pick the plants too closely. Fowls will pick off the green leaves and, ft not pastured too heavily, the plants win also produce a crop of peas.

A conveyor belt has been recently made tor an Ohio stone quarry which cost 16,000, weighs IXOOO pounds, is 839 feet long and 26 Inches in width — one of the largest ever made, If not the record breaker ttaett. ■ * wr-—' w-