Cheese-cloth Shade Frame
Drive down several stakes on the border and in the center of the bed.
Make a cover of cheese-cloth to fit over the bed, and fasten it to the stakes.
You see, the cheese-cloth lets in light and air and rain, yet protects the little seedlings from the direct hot rays of the sun.
“We boys will drive down the stakes if you girls will make the cheese-cloth cover,” volunteered their father.
“Sew we will, won’t we, Eleanor?” laughed Mary Frances.
“Was that a pun?” asked Billy. “Why, Mary Frances!”
“She meant we will so,” Eleanor tried to explain, but everybody smiled.
“You do not need to sew if the beds are narrow, for the cheese-cloth will be wide enough,” Billy said, “nor if you use another method of shading the seed beds. I mean if you use—