Note 23 — WHAT TO GROW. (continued 2)

This idea of a mulch of light material to cover the freshly planted beans in a wet season is a very good one; but we would think that saving and applying Coffee Grounds for a bean patch of the size it should be in a garden of one acre, would be a good deal like “emptying a hogshead of water with a teaspoon.” We would suggest the use of sand, sifted coal ashes, chaff or buckwheat hulls, as answering the purpose equally well, and as being much more readily obtained.—Ed.