CHAPTER V 



RECORD YIELDS 



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. 



NONE of the figures we give show the full 

 possibilities of an acre. No man can 

 measure that; the only question is how far it 

 will pay to increase its products. You could 

 not hope to "beat the record" with a horse 

 or with a yacht unless you have hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars to spend. Nor to make 

 a new record in the mile run or the high 

 jump without a special physique or long 

 training; but by experiment through tillage and 

 care, an ordinary person may surpass the best rec- 

 ords shown in crops, or may develop new trees 

 and plants that will benefit the world. Hitherto, 



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