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are about growing plums and apples and cherries. 

 Any good agricultural paper will carry you through 

 your experiments and lead you safely to success. 

 There is of course much more to gardening than ap- 

 pears on the surface, but you can learn most of this 

 as you move on. You have to make your soil, as 

 well as cultivate your plants, but this I have told you 

 about in another chapter. 



You must not count on large returns until you have 

 planted considerable experience as well as seeds, but 

 with the worst sort of blundering you can hardly fail 

 to get enough vegetables for home consumption the 

 first year and the waste can go to your cow and horse. 

 I could easily repeat a lot of fine stories, showing 

 what somebody has done with an onion bed, or with 

 a field of beans or peas, only you would probably be 

 misled by such stories. 



What you can do will be something like this ; from 

 a garden five rods square, get your table corn in suc- 

 cession from July to September. You will from the 

 same field get plenty of green peas during the same 

 period. For string beans and shell beans you will 

 need another strip about one rod by four or five. 

 Potatoes will call for a third strip six rods by four, 

 and good mellow soil it must be to give you good re- 

 turns. Now when you come to planting for market, 

 multiply the strips according to the amount of vege- 

 tables you are prepared to truck and sell. In the 

 Southern States we try sweet potatoes and cassava 

 and never expect to find the market overstocked. 



