19 CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



PACK 



RECORD YIELDS 131 



Possibilities Production and Cost A Standard 

 Records A Garden for Five School Gardens 

 Small Plots Yields of "Poor" Soil Celery Texas 

 Onions Corn Record Strawberry Yields Rhubarb 

 Christmas Trade A House-cellar Patch Forcing 

 Cellar Onions by New Culture Asparagus. 



CHAPTER VI 



WAYS OF WORKING 149 



The Home Garden First Working the Soil A Be- 

 ginner's Garden Save Labor Fruit Planting and 

 Transplanting One Crop Risky Companion Crop- 

 ping Specialties Marketing Succession Crops 

 Deepening Cultivation Subsoiling Soil Enriches 

 Itself Insects Smothered by Ashes Winter Plowing 

 to Kill Spraying Fertilizers Irrigation Drainage 

 Dry Farming Fancy Packing. 



CHAPTER VII 



MONEY AND TIME REQUIRED 173 



The Teacher of Fools Succeess Failure "Think- 

 box " Secrets Large Capital Not Needed Spe- 

 cialties as Money-makers The Value of Money 

 Equipment Outlay and Income Five-acre Invest- 

 ment Ten Acres Costly Cost of Starting Union 

 Wages in Different Cities Hand vs. Horse Cultiva- 

 tion Crops Every Month The Condition of the 

 Farmer. 



CHAPTER VIII 



GROWING UNDER GLASS 187 



Early Vegetables A Sample Hot-bed Heating by 

 Fire Cost and Returns Flowers Better Than Veg- 

 etables Greenhouses Success. 



