CHAPTER VI 



WAYS OF WORKING 



The Home Garden First Working the Soil A Begin- 

 ner's Garden Save Labor Fruit Planting and Trans- 

 planting One Crop Risky Companion Cropping 

 Specialties Marketing Succession Crops Deepening 

 Cultivation Subsoiling Soil Enriches Itself Insects 

 Smothered by Ashes Winter Plowing to Kill Spraying 

 Fertilizers Irrigation Drainage Dry Farming 

 Fancy Packing. 



NO matter what the profits of the farm are to 

 come from, the home garden should have 

 first attention ; that is what men live by, regardless 

 of prices or hard times. It must be large enough 

 to supply the family with food in abundance and 

 variety, but, to economize labor, it should be 

 larger than that. A quarter acre will give your 

 family a succession of vegetables in summer and 

 fall, and potatoes and turnips for the winter. It 

 will take about four days to dig it over and four 

 to plant. 



The part kept for radishes, lettuce, beets, 



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