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they don't need to take up your valuable land 

 all together. You start the seeds in plates with 

 wet brown paper, and the plants in " flats," shal- 

 low boxes of earth, or in window boxes, cold 

 frames, hot beds or glass houses and set them 

 out intelligently. How to do that is a study by 

 itself. For it is necessary that the crops should 

 get their growth at sufficient intervals not to steal 

 nourishment from one another. 



Of course, many crops, radishes for instance, 

 may be grown, by successive plantings, right 

 through the season, and late sweet corn may be 

 planted as late as August 15th in the Central 

 States. 



Three acres will give a good living on this 

 basis. 



To produce big crops deepening cultivation 

 is necessary. This is because the more soil sur- 

 face exposed to the air, the greater the regain 

 by that soil of the productiveness lost in former 

 cropping. The market gardener who breaks 

 and subsoils his land deeper each year down to 

 a depth of 24 to 30 inches, will, if the under soil 

 is good, greatly surpass the gardener who only 



