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ready, on a certain Tuesday he starts a mixed row 

 of plantings about like this : 



"Kind Amount per person 



Lettuce 7 plants, 6 inches apart 



Beans 3 seeds, 4 inches apart 



Beets 6 inches, sown thickly 



Carrots 4 inches, sown thickly 



Kale 3 inches, sown thickly 



Spinach 3 to 5 inches, sown thickly 



Turnips 6 inches 



Corn 6 grains Bantam variety 



Mustard 1 plant for whole season 



Onion 8 sets, two inches apart 



Peas 10-ft. row, inoculate and lime 



Egg-plant 1 plant for whole season 



Tomato 1 plant for whole season 



Cabbage 1 plant weekly, constant moisture 



Radishes Sow thickly between last four 



Celery Plant a solid row, 8 feet per person 



"The following Tuesday he will use the same list, 

 except egg-plant and tomato, and then will have two 

 of his thirty-foot rows coming along. These small 

 rows he must ardently care for every morning after the 

 few chickens and rabbits are fed. 



"Acreculture of this character must be allied with 

 two walnut, olive and ahuacate trees, several raisin 

 grapevines, prunes, figs, peaches, apricots, enough for 

 drying and canning, chickens, pigeons and rabbits (in- 

 stead of a pup) and a hive for the honeybee. 



"It is a notable fact, and lamentable, that the ten- 



