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ucts; now we have almost annihilated seasons so 

 far as garden truck is concerned. 



Mrs. P. Bailey, of California, says : " When 

 a girl, I had the picking and selling of the straw- 

 berries, and I see by my old note book that I sold 

 more than $100.00 worth of berries from our bed. 

 It was about 20 x 20 feet, if I remember rightly, 

 and during the month of June I sold more than 

 $40.00 worth and had regular customers for the 

 berries all summer." 



That was at Stockton, California, but Mrs. 

 Bailey now has a little home of her own at Sali- 

 nas, and of this she says : " I get all the berries 

 we can eat from a little bed of six rows 12 feet 

 long, and have put up some and given away a 

 few. There was a man called on Sunday and he 

 was surprised at our little home garden and said 

 he liked the strawberries best of all. As he has 

 just bought a little home of his own, he wants a 

 good patch of strawberries right away.'* 



Rhubarb is another profitable crop, and J. E. 

 Morse, in " New Rhubarb Culture," tells how it is 

 forced for the Christmas market. All that is 

 necessary is the complete exclusion of light and 



