THE KITCHEN GARDEN 77 



arm during the Civil War, lives in Kenilworth, D. C., and 

 clears $1500 an acre every year out of mud puddles if 

 mud puddles can be measured by the acre. 



Mr. Shaw is a pond lily farmer, and despite his lack of his 

 good right arm, he poles his boat about his mud puddles 

 and gathers in the pond lilies. His is not exactly a "dry 

 farm" and neither wet nor cloudy weather bothers him. 

 Furthermore, the demand for his pond lilies in Baltimore, 

 Washington, Philadelphia, and even New York, and Chicago, 

 is greater than he can supply. 



Mr. Shaw secured this swamp for almost nothing, as it 

 was considered worthless. He divided it into fifteen pools 

 with little dams between them, and rollers on the dams to 

 enable him to drag his boat from one to the other. From 

 May to late in September he is busy every morning gathering 

 lilies. His average is about 500 a morning, which he ships 

 in little galvanized iron tanks with wet moss. 



Many school children know how to get results on a little 

 land. Mr. Mahoney, Superintendent of the Fairview Gar- 

 den School, Yonkers, New York, estimates that the total 

 value of produce grown on the 250 gardens, composing the 

 school plot, in all about one and one quarter acres of land, 

 was $1308, or at the rate of more than a thousand dollars 

 per acre. When it is taken into consideration that all the 

 labor was done by boys ranging in age from eight to twelve 

 years, this result is truly astonishing. 



What may not adult skilled labor produce when applied 

 freely to the land? 



Mr. Julian Burroughs, in the Garden Magazine, reports 

 that on two strips of land measuring 20X100 and 10X50 

 feet, 2500 square feet in all, he secured the following 

 results : 



