The garden yard

Brain value 24 Buildings you need 29 Choosing your farm 27 Fortunes, hidden 22-25 How to grow rich 28, 29 Land and crops 26 Location for field crops 21 Location for garden crops...

An unusual use 31 Best soil, the 36 Failure your own fault 41 “Good” soil 33 Humus 40, 72, 73, 74, 86 Moisture, how to get and hold it 34, 36 Soil—How it was made 30, 31 “ Its c...

Soil fertility—what it is 42 Agricultural Department’s crop work 46, 48 Help it offers 48 Limited crops 46 Nature and the abandoned farm 42, 43 Seeds, Bob’s solution 43, 45 Type...

Plant needs—what they are 57 Foods, three sure 58 Light, degrees of 57, 58 Lime values 59 Medicines 59 Protectors 60, 61 Temperature 59 Under- and over-feeding 58 Water, effect...

Best way to do it 73 Cleaning up 74 How to preserve it 76 Lawn, the 75 Misleading term 72 Prepared humus 74 Success, real 77 What we really do 72

Grouping 80 How to plant 79 “ “ run rows 80 Keep soil busy 82 Manuring 79 Preparing the plot 78 Rotation 81 Test for acid 78 Transplanting 81 Companion cropping 82 Cellar growin...

Radishes 91 Culture 92 Enemies 93 Needs 93 Varieties 93 When to sow 92 Beets 94 As greens 95 Enemies 96 Fertilizers, special 96, 97 Marketing 97 Planting 95 Tillage 96 Where to...

Potatoes 106 Early potatoes 108 Enemies and diseases 108 How to plant 107 Seed, potato 107 Soils, best 106 Spraying 108 Yield, average 106 “ good 106 “ phenomenal 218-225 “ poss...

How to propagate 111 Needs, their 111 Seed-bed crops 111 Leeks 111 How grown 111 Product 111 Storage 111 Ciboule 112 Cives 112 Garlic 111 Shallot 112 Onion, Welsh 112 Onions 112...

Meaning of name 119 Why grown 119 Brussels Sprouts 127 Soil, food and tillage needs 127 Successful growing 128 Cabbage 119 Acre yield, an 121 Crops, two 120 Essentials for growi...

Characteristics 134 Needs 134 What they are 134 Chard 137 Dandelion 138 Characteristics 138 Harvesting 139, 140 Tillage 139 Mustard 137 Where grown 137 Soil requirements 138 Pur...

What they are 141 What they need 141 Celeriac 159 How eaten 159 How to grow 159 Soil and tillage 159 Transplanting 159 Celery 150 Blanching 154, 155, 156 Care in tilling 153, 15...

What they are 161 What they need 161 Beans 166-172 Bush and pole beans 169 Enemies 171, 172 Lima beans 167, 170 Ornamental uses 170 Planting 170 Preparing the soil 167 String be...

Crops included 173 Nature and requirements 173 Eggplants 179, 180 Enemies 181 Harvesting 180 Marketing 180 Planting 179 Tillage 180 Transplanting 179, 180 Treatment required 179...

What they are 183 “ “ need 183 Why you fail 183 How to succeed 183 When and where to plant 184 Enemies 184 Cucumbers and Gherkin 185 Planting in hills 185 Uses 186 Varieties 186...

What they include 192 “ “ need 192 Martynia 197 Okra or Gumbo 196 Cultivation 197 Enemies 197 Nature 196 Uses 196 Where and why grown 196 Sweet Corn 192 Cultivation 193, 194, 19...

What they are 201 “ “ need 201 Asparagus 201 Cultivation 201 Enemies 206, 207 Growing from seed 203 Harvesting 204 Marketing 205 Planting 202 Soil requirements 201 Tillage 202 W...

Arsenical sprays 233 Bordeaux mixture, what it will do and how to make it 229, 230 Emulsions 235 Kerosene emulsions 234 Manufacture and use 234, 235 Need of watching 227 Paris g...

Best are cheapest 241, 242, 243 Care of manure, the 240 Natural and chemical 237, 238 What each contains 238, 239 What fertilizer is 237 Wire basket, soil needs test 244, 249

Experiments show, what 250, 251 Growing crops and fertilizers 255 Manure contains, what 257 Potassium, kainit, wood ashes and lime 252, 253 Value of “check plats,” the 253, 254...

Cultivation 262 Currants and gooseberries 264 How to grow them 264 Enemies and their remedy 264, 265 Grapes 265 How to grow them 265, 266 Growing new plants 263 Labor and yield...

Branches of the business 272 Care and feed 269 Central hatching 273 Cleanliness 269 Colony plan versus yarded 274, 275 Effort and profit 278 How to succeed 279 Importance of inc...

This book is not intended as a scientific book on agriculture; there are many such books which are out of the depths of everyone except professors and professionals. In a nice e...

No man knows, nor can know, the capacity of a yard of earth, for it is unlimited, just as the speed of the engine is unlimited. Just as with the engine, the only question is whe...

If this book is to be of real service, we must be clear about the terms and expressions, so that, though you may know nothing about gardening when you begin to read it, you may...

Soil fertility is the power in the soil itself to produce a good crop under proper conditions. Man can neither make nor destroy the land. All that man can do is to make it more...

How to buy land and why; how to help the poor to keep themselves on the land and what plain people have actually done; the record yields and how they have been raised; how much...

The expense and labor of preparing and tilling soil is too great to allow you to plant poor seed. The stock-breeder does not take his sickliest, poorest specimens for breeding p...

Plant-breeding is producing plants adapted to particular conditions or requirements; but the mere production of something new or different, is not true plant-breeding. The plant...

Plants need water, air, food, light and warmth just as animals do, and it is wonderful to study the shifts and contrivances to which they resort to get these, and also to protec...

In agriculture on a large scale the difficulty is how to arrange the farm business so as to make it pay. It is only of late that we are beginning to understand that agriculture...

It is not enough to know what to grow, you must also know what not to grow for profit, in a garden patch; and first in this class come weeds. Study them until you know even thei...

The wise gardener uses the spray to prevent disease and the attacks of insects, instead of waiting to fight them after they have arrived. But if they attack your garden you must...

There is a good deal of talk these days about re-soiling, but the word is misleading. We cannot re-soil this earth or any part of it. The soil is there for keeps. It was here be...

If you are only just beginning to experiment with gardening, and feel that a fresh supply of fruits and vegetables from May until Christmas would satisfy you for the first year...

Root crops are usually grown in drills and are not ordinarily transplanted. They are hardy and require little skill in the gardener, but they need a cool season and deep soil so...

A heavy yield of potatoes may be simply a matter of moisture and frequent tillage. The potato likes Scotland[5] and Nova Scotia because it thrives best in deep, cool, moist soil...

All bulb crops are hardy, liking cool seasons and moist rich soil with a loose top. As a rule they are seed-bed crops, but are sown early in the open field. They grow from seeds...

Cole crops are among the hardy plants of the garden and field, requiring plenty of moisture at the roots, a cool season and cool soil. Hence their name, Cole meaning cool. They...

Pot-herb crops are “greens,” grown for their leaves. Unless the growth be quick and continuous, the leaves will not be crisp and tender. Quick and continuous growth can be secur...

Salad crops are close kin to pot-herbs. But a salad is eaten uncooked, while pot-herbs are boiled. Some plants are used both ways, but they are then classed according to their m...

Peas and beans are the pulse plants, and although they are cousins they are widely different in their requirements. In this respect peas and beans resemble children, who though...

This division takes in tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and husk tomatoes. These require all, or nearly all, the season to mature, and they keep on making growth, particularly in the...

“Cucurbitous” is a fine large word, but you don’t need to learn it. All vine crops are annuals and are tender to frost, although all do not need a hot-bed start. They are warm-s...

In this division of garden crops come sweet corn, okra and martynia, which have no relation to the other crops, and none to each other, except that they require about the same c...

A great variety of plants, medicinal, flavoring and decorative, are herbs, but we will consider only those used for cookery and usually called “sweet herbs.” The very name bring...

The vegetables in this group have little in common except their cultural wants or requirements, but these are so different from the needs of annuals that it is convenient to gro...

It is well to grow a variety of crops for your own experience and your own table. But for profit, it is best to specialize, because if you read up all you should know about seve...

Now suppose you have prepared your soil properly, and planted your seed carefully; that your transplanting has been done, and your crops are growing; do you think your work is d...

A fertilizer is something added to the soil in order to increase the crop yield. Chemical fertilizers are very valuable when very intelligently used—but look out for them. Peopl...

In the past we believed that fertilizers acted as plant foods and that the substances to be applied must contain one or more of four elements which are probably the most importa...

In the North, we have to protect our gathered crops and to store them safely for a profitable market, but we do not need an expensive barn or cellar for that. A root house or ve...

The home garden would scarcely be complete without a strawberry patch, and hardly anything gives better returns. Strawberries grow in various kinds of soil, but a light, sandy l...

Even the hen is intensively cultivated these days, and that makes room for her and her chicks on the small patch. It is perfectly amazing how little the ordinary farmer knows ab...

We hear a great deal about the farmer waking up to the fact that his calling is a business that must be conducted upon business principles, if it is to pay. Anybody who knows an...

Don’t run away with the idea that the farmer’s life is all fun or all labor. It isn’t. It is a mixture of both, and fun and labor are equally healthful and profitable.