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yielded radishes, lettuce, onions, peas, beans, cab- 

 bage, beets, sweet corn, potatoes, cucumbers, 

 sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, amounting to more 

 than $20 in value, which was $433 per acre. Such 

 returns are not confined to pieces of naturally 

 "good" soil, but may reasonably be expected 

 from any soil properly cultivated.* 



In the mountain region of Garrett County, 

 Md., there are swampy lands with streams run- 

 ning through them, known as glade-lands. A 

 gentleman gave plots of these glade-lands to men 

 employed in his tanneries, to be used as they 

 pleased. 



Truck gardening was the result. In the fall, 

 when the crops were gathered, the gentleman 

 had the yield of potatoes carefully measured 

 twice, to be sure that the result was correct. 



* The Garden Magazine for May, 190T, is the authority for an 

 account of a city backyard garden 28 x 28 feet, which produced 

 enough vegetables to supply a family of three from the middle 

 of May until November. Successive sowings were made where- 

 ever a little space could be found, with the result that all the 

 ground produced two crops, and most of it three during the 

 season. The produce included radishes, lettuce, parsley, onions, 

 strawberries, currants, peas, beans, salsify, tomatoes (early and 

 late), corn, cucumbers, celery and winter squash. The value of 

 the yield was $30.80. 



