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GARDENING 



Besides this our cellar is filled for the winter, and I am 

 satisfied, my six children and my wife are well provided 

 for. Yours truly, 



In addition to the amount sold and stored this 

 man had supplied his table since June 1 with all 

 the vegetables needed by his family besides 

 taking in four boarders for several weeks. A 

 low estimate of the vegetables used by his family 

 and boarders for twenty weeks would be $100, 

 and this must be added to the amount sold and 

 stored to get his total production. This would 

 amount to at least $200 in all. 



Another remarkable showing was made by an 

 old man. On a plot 60 x 100 feet he raised fifty 

 dollars' worth of products, entirely by his own 

 labor. At that rate of production he could have 

 produced $360 worth of products to the acre. 



Ninety gardeners started in at the beginning 

 of the season and less than five per cent, failed 

 to carry their work to completion. 



Gaylord Wilshire, a prominent Socialist, and 

 Editor of Wilshire' s Magazine, says: 



"In our grandfathers' days 'necessary ma- 



