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of vegetables will reduce the damage from insects, because 

 each family has its peculiar bugs. By constant change to 

 new soil, the pests have no opportunity to get a foothold. 



With bugs, as with boys, only those who are interested 

 in them and therefore understand them can manage them. 

 It is fun to study the insects and it pays. 



It is difficult to give any fixed rule as to how much one 

 may expect to produce on land devoted to the kitchen garden. 

 As an example of what the most unskilled may do, the Ninth 

 Report of the Vacant Lot Cultivation Association mentions 

 a sample garden of one hundred square feet of Philadelphia 

 land cultivated by school children ten to twelve years of 

 age as producing the f ollowing : 



String Beans, 1 pints $ .10 



Lettuce, 40 heads 2.00 



Lima Beans, 2$ pecks 75 



Tomatoes, 2| pecks 1.00 



Beets, 6 bunches 30 



Cabbages, 3 heads 15 



Radishes, 20 bunches 1.00 



$5.30 



See how we can learn from our children. The values in 

 money are given to show what can be saved in household 

 expense by raising our own stuff. 



This rate of production carried out on a quarter-acre 

 garden would have a money value of more than $500. The 

 Superintendent believes that with care and good market 

 facilities a quarter acre could easily be made to produce 

 an average yield of that much or more. 



W. F. Fairbrother, of New Jersey, in the Garden Magazine, 

 gives the following cost and product from a garden 22 X 34 

 feet, before the war: 



