Judge, 1910-05-21 · page 3 of 16
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This page from *Judge* magazine is **not political satire** but rather **practical gardening advice** disguised as humorous illustration. The top cartoon shows a "Judge" figure supervising early gardeners, while the bottom illustration depicts various gardening activities—people digging, hauling water, and working soil. The article "Hints for Early Gardeners" by Don Cameron Shafter offers legitimate tips: starting tomato seeds indoors, soaking peas before planting, creating lettuce beds in kitchen corners, and managing water hoses. The humor is gentle and domestic rather than satirical—depicting the physical labor of gardening through exaggerated cartoon characters engaged in typical spring activities. The "intensive cultivators" caption at bottom jokes about the effort required. This represents *Judge*'s lighter, non-political content aimed at readers' daily lives rather than current events.
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HINTS FOR EARLY GARDENERS. By DON CAMERON SHAFER OMATO seeds should always be started in the house early T in March, Take a couple of the lower drawers from the sideboard or dresser, and fill with a light layer of gravel from the roof, and complete with rich dirt from the cel- lar bottom, enriched with coal ashes. With a pair of calipers measure off the ground into three-inch squares and sow the seeds as indicated. Water with a medicine dropper and place in the sunlight. If the cat sleeps on the box, it will help to keep the seedlings warm. Sprout your early peas by soaking them in spring water. Fill a quart jar full of peas and add what water they will ab- sorb, then screw on the glass top, In the morning they will have sprouted all over the dining-room floor. An excellent lettuce and onion bed can be made in one cor- ner of a warm kitchen by boarding off a section of the floor and filling with dirt. Cover this improvised hotbed with the glass windows from the barn, and you will be surprised at the excellent results obtaina- ble. As soon as the frost is out of the ground, sow your early beans and peas. Of course you will for- get where you sowed them until { l if FOR INTENSIV! Jones has invented a trolley device with balancing weights, which Ih tl after you have spaded up the place, but this will make them grow all the better—they are used to this sort of treatment. The rakes, hoes, and spades should all be carefully cleaned in readiness for the spring work. This can be done with your wife's manicuring set. To fix the leaky rubber water hose, coil it up carefully and take it down to the junkman. Add acertain amount to the sell- ing price and buy a new hose. To keep your wife from giving away your old clothes, saved purposely for the garden work, take them downtown and lock them in the office safe. No, tomato seeds will not grow any better from old tomato cans than from peach cans, Carrying the boxes of growing plants out into the sun every day and back every night is a good way to grow an appetite for the green things later on, My — CULTIVATORS. palls you right up after hoeing, and rids one of the crick in the back comicbooks.com