. The American home garden . dinary cultivation ; but if trenching is found necessary, itmay be done in sections at any time after the plot is the soil of your plot is a moderately light loam, when en-riched it will become a perfect garden soil. If it be strongloam, repeated and high manuring with stable and other stim-ulating manm-e will steadily imjDrove it. If it be heavy loamor clay, cart on sand or road-wash as freely as you can fromtime to time, and manure often and highly. If, on the con-trary, the soil is sandy, cart on loam or clay, and mix it wellby repeated plowing and har
. The American home garden . dinary cultivation ; but if trenching is found necessary, itmay be done in sections at any time after the plot is the soil of your plot is a moderately light loam, when en-riched it will become a perfect garden soil. If it be strongloam, repeated and high manuring with stable and other stim-ulating manm-e will steadily imjDrove it. If it be heavy loamor clay, cart on sand or road-wash as freely as you can fromtime to time, and manure often and highly. If, on the con-trary, the soil is sandy, cart on loam or clay, and mix it wellby repeated plowing and harrowing, using at the same timecow and hog manm-e, leached ashes, marl, or swamp muck,avoiding the use of barn-yard or stable manure, unless in com-liost, or when perfectly rottc<l. AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 19 In estimating the quantity of sand or its opposite requiredfor changing the mechanical character of soil, it may be reck-oned that 247 cubic yards of earth will cover an acre to thedepth of two inches. DRAINING. Fig. A, A. The line of ooze. F, F. Side drains. ^^^ B, B. Diagonal drains. G, G, G, G. Points of discharge on C, Side drain. the surface. D, D, D. Points of discharge on the H. Blind ditch. surface. 1. Covered stone drain. E, Double pitch drain. J. Covered pipe drain. It is sometimes found necessary or convenient to make agarden in a wet spot. Li such a case, draining, though requir-ing considerable labor, is indispensable. If the spot be a dead level, in which it is only necessary orpossible to sink the water from the surface, surround your gar-den on the outside of the fence with an open ditch of such 20 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. depth and width as you may deem sufficient for the pmpose,always making the depth of your open ditch equal to its widthat the surface, and grading the sides so as to make the widthof the bottom equal to one third of the depth. If required, letblind ditches or covered drains, as deep as the ojien ditch, anddischarging into it, be made to
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