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YIELDS 



tive by successive crops. In 1905 it was planted 

 first in strawberries, which sold for $60.00. The 

 second crop was of sugar corn and pole beans. 

 Besides supplying two families, $12.00 worth of 

 corn was sold, and the poor ears were used to fat- 

 ten a pig. Of the beans, some were sold, some 

 given away, a great many were eaten by the two 

 families, and a bushel was dried for winter use. 

 When the frost came, rye was sowed and har- 

 rowed with a disc harrow. This furnished excel- 

 lent pasture for pigs and chickens all winter, and 

 in the spring was turned into the ground as 

 manure. 



A 25 x 25 foot garden at Rhode Island Agri- 

 cultural College yielded vegetables worth $32.18 

 at market rates, or at the rate of five cents per 

 square foot per acre. Three cents per square 

 foot is considered a good gross yield.* 



* One of the students at the Normal School at Washington, 

 D. C., cultivated half of his back yard, and raised enough vegeta- 

 bles to feed a family of eight persons all summer. This garden 

 patch was about 18 x 15 feet. At that rate an acre would have 

 fed 1290 persons. 



A preacher in Indiana Co., Pa., on a patch equalling about 

 one-fiftieth of an acre, raised beans, peas, some strawberry plants, 

 and a fine crop of tomatoes. The vegetables supplied all the wants 

 of a family of four. 



