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The Garden Yard

by Bolton Hall

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PAGE
Preface 9-12
Becoming a gardener 9, 10, 11
Intensive Farm, the 9, 16
Some sorts of critics 10
Introduction 13-20
A practical offer 14
Co-operation 17-20
Farm for nothing, a 15
How much land is needed 15
Obstacles—how to overcome them 14
The only life 13
What intensive cultivation means 16
Chapter I.—The Garden Yard 21-29
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 21
Market importance 26
Mistakes and their cost 22
Money, in what 24
The value of ownership 28
Unknown capacity 21
Work not enough 25
Chapter II.—Soil 30-41
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 contents 31
“Texture 34
“ What it is 30
Soils to avoid 37
Surface and subsoil 32
Tillage 37-40
Tilth 36, 37
Chapter III.—Soil Fertility 42-48
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
Types of soil in the U. S.46
Whitney’s (Prof.) idea 45
Chapter IV.—Location 49-50
How to buy, clear, build 49
Land you can’t afford to use 49
Manure and watering 49, 50
Market 50
To find out where and how 49
Chapter V.—Seeds 51-53
Houses, good seed 52
Ideal, the 51
Planting dates 53
Seed test 52
Use only the best 51
Chapter VI.—Plant Breeding 54-56
Plant breeding—what it is 54
Good farmers and breeding 54
How to improve 54
Professional breeders 54
Selection and variations 55
“Sports”56
Chapter VII.—Plant Needs 57-61
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 of 57
Chapter VIII.—Crop Rotation 62-65
Farming a business 62
Special crops 62
Value of rotation 63, 64, 65, 81
Chapter IX.—Weeds 66-68
Weeds—how to know them 66
Common weeds 66
“ “ How to destroy them 67
“ “ Their use 68
Chapter X.—Insects and Diseases 69-71
Causes, some 69
How transmitted 70
Preventives 70
Preventing attacks 69
The little we know 69
Weeds as breeders 71
Chapter XI.—Re-soiling 72-77
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
Chapter XII.—How to Work 78-89
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 growing 89
Drainage 82, 83
Drought, protection against 87
How we learn 88
Irrigation 82
Sewage 86, 87
Small area crops 88
Things that pay 88
Tools, keeping them clean 84, 85
Use brains 88
Waste water value 86
Part II.
Chapter XIII.—Root Crops 90-105
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 grow 94
Yield 96
Carrots 97
How to sow 97
Soil preparation 97
Thinning 98
Types 98
Yield 99
Turnips 99
Easy to grow 99
Cowhorn turnip 44
How to plant 100
Root maggot 100
Soil 99
Thinning 100
Parsnips 100
Cultivation 101
Freedom from disease 102
Sowing 101
Thorough preparation 101
Yield 102
Salsify 102
Kitchen use only 102
Returns 103
Soil requirements 102
Types, modified 102, 103
Horse-radish 103
Grown from “sets”103
How planted 104
Tillage 104
Yield 104
Chapter XIV.—Tuber Crops 106-110
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
“possible 106
Sweet Potatoes 109
Home of 109
Climate 109
Cultivation 109, 110
Enemies 110
Soil 109
Chapter XV.—Bulb Crops 111-118
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
Early crop 114
Enemies 118
Fertilizing 113
Growing 112
Handling and storing 116
“Multiplier” onions 115
New onion culture 115
Season, main 114
Selling onions 117
“Sets”114
Sorting 117
“Top”-onions 114
Weeding 114
Yields 118
Chapter XVI.—Cole Crops 119-133
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 growing 119
Fertilizing 120
Field-grown 121
Hot-bed plants 121
Insects and diseases 122
Locality, effect of 122
Marketing 121
Planting 123, 124
Profits in cabbage 123
Protection from insects 125
Quick first crop 123
Second crop 125
Cauliflower 129
Good seed necessary 129
Growing seed 130
Tillage, right 130
Where it grows best 129
Kale 126
Better for frost 126
Collards 127
Cultivation 126
Enemies 127
How sown 126
Southern kale 127
Kohlrabi 131
Best varieties 131
How to thin 131
Insects, diseases and cures 131, 132, 133
Its family 131
“ uses 131
Chapter XVII.—Pot-herb Crops 134-140
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
Purslane 140
Spinach 134
Forced spinach 136
How sown 137
How to sow 135
New Zealand spinach 136
Where and when grown 134
Chapter XVIII.—Salad Crops 141-160
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, 154
Diseases 158
Early and late crop 153
Fertilizing 153
How to sow 151
Loss in sprouting 152
Marketing 157
Seed-bed crop 150
Soil requirements 150
Storing 157
Thinning 152
Transplanting 152
Varieties 158
Where it grows best 150, 151
Chicory 145
How to grow 145
Salad plant 145
Use of chicory roots 146
Corn Salad 148
Cool-season crop 148
How and where to plant 148
Yield 149
Cress 146
How and where to grow 146, 147
How to plant 148
Varieties 146
Endive 144
Blanching 144
How to sow 144
Season, its 144
Soil and tillage 144
Use, its 145
Lettuce 142
Companion-crop 143
Culture 142
Growing in the open 143
“under glass 143
Nature 142
Sowing and thinning 143
Succession-crop 143
Yield 143
Parsley 149
Easy to grow 149
Nature 149
Uses 149
Salad Chervil 149
Culture 150
Ready for use 150
Varieties 150
Chapter XIX.—Pulse Crops 161-172
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 beans 166
Where they grow 171
Where and when to sow 166
Peas 161-166
Early crops 162
Enemies 163, 165
Pea values 162, 163
Planting 161
Soil requirements 161
Varieties 163
Chapter XX.—Solanaceous Crops 173-182
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
Husk Tomato 182
Peppers 181
Cultivation 181
Growth of demand 181
Starting 181
Transplanting 181
Uses 182
Varieties 182
Tomatoes 173
Cultivation 174
Fertilizing 174
Harvesting 178
Racks, cheap 166, 167
Sowing seed 173
Tillage 174
Training and its value 175
Varieties 179
Where grown 173
Yield 179
Chapter XXI.—Vine or Cucurbitous Crops 183-191
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
Yield 186
Muskmelon 186
Enemies 187
Planting 187
Varieties 187
Where grown 187
Yield 187
Pumpkin and Squash 189
Differences 190
Enemies 191
Uses 190
Varieties 190-191
Watermelon 187
Cultivation 188
Enemies 189
Testing 189
Uncertain crop 187
Where and how grown 188
Chapter XXII.—Unclassified Annuals 192-197
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, 195
Enemies 196
Important crop 192
Marketing 195
Preparation for planting 193
Where it thrives 192
Yield 196
Chapter XXIII.—Herbs, Sweet and Condimental 198-200
Varieties 198
Classes 198
Growing 198, 199
Annuals 199
Perennials 200
Chapter XXIV.—Perennial Crops 201-215
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
Winter protection 205
Yield 206
Rhubarb 208
Cellar plots 210
Forced growth 210, 211
Nature, hardy 208
New culture 209
Planting 208
Profitable growing 209
Soil needs 208
Yield 211
Docks and Sorrels 211
Varieties 211
Artichoke 212
Jerusalem and French Globe 212
Sowing 212
Stock feed 213
Uses 214
Ways of the artichoke 213, 214
Winter mulch 213
Yield 214
Sea-kale 214
Blanching 215
Care 215
How it grows 214
Chapter XXV.—Specialities 216-226
Asparagus 218
Celery 218
Chestnuts 217
Mushrooms 218
Onions and potatoes 218
300 bushels to the acre 218, 225
Other specialties 226
Specializing and profits 216, 217
Strawberries 225
Chapter XXVI.—Watching and Spraying 227-236
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 green 232
Spraying as a remedy 228
Spraying mixture 228, 235
Uses 232
Value of spraying, the 235
Chapter XXVII.—Fertilizers 237-249
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
Chapter XXVIII.—More About Fertilizers 250-257
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
Valuable elements 250
Chapter XXIX.—Root Houses and Vegetable Pits 258-259
How to build one 258, 259
Uses, their 258
Varieties of pits 259
Chapter XXX.—Small Fruits 260-266
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 260
Marketing 262
Planting 261
Preparing the soil 261
Raspberries and blackberries 263
How to grow them 264
Strawberry patch, the 260
Chapter XXXI.—The Poultry Run 267-279
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 incubation 273
Incubator hatching 271
Indian Runner ducks 277
Intensive hen, the 267
Location of house 270
Modern hen-house, a 270-271
Outdoor brooding 271
Profitable poultry 268
Small companies 269
Chapter XXXII.—Organization 280-291
Agricultural colleges and books 281
New methods 280
Work of the months 282-291
Chapter XXXIII.—A Few Practical “Don’ts”292-298
Deep plowing 292
Department of Agriculture 294
Farmer’s life, the 292
Feed the soil 295
Making seeds comfortable 292, 293
Successful farmers 296, 297
Tools and their care 295
Appendix I.299-300
Island of Guernsey products 299
Appendix II.301-306
French Gardening, etc.301
Appendix III.307-317
Maylands Gardening Customs 307
Appendix IV.318-321
Agricultural Courses 318

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