THE GRAND PRIZE GARDEN 9 



EXPENSES 



Rent of land $ .50 



Manure ^ 



Plowing and fitting 1.20 



Plants 750 



betung and resetting 1.05 



10 lbs nitrate of soda at 3 i-2c 35 



5 lbs Jadoo fiber at 3c 15 



Cultivation and hoeing 75 



Picking 3-^ 



Marketnig 3-30 



$19.20 



Balance profit $i5-35 



Hubbard squashes were grown exclusively in 

 Plot No. 3, which is a sandy knoll with a southern 

 slope. The preparation of the ground was similar to 

 that of the other plots. On June lo it was planted. 

 The hills were made six by six feet by mixing a shovel- 

 ful of manure with the soil and covering with earth 

 one inch deep. 



Late cabbage was planted on Plot No. 4 (not 

 shown), which was four by ten rods, with an easterly 

 slope and heavy sandy soil. In previous years serious 

 trouble with club root had been experienced and a test 

 with litmus paper showed the soil to be very sour. Air 

 slaked lime, at the rate of one ton per acre, was sown 

 broadcast and harrowed in after applying four tons 

 of manure. Only five and five-tenths per cent of the 

 plants showed club root, while the previous crop grown 

 in 1896 was entirely abandoned on account of this 

 trouble. 



Late in the fall ?ome rhubarb roots were dug, left 

 on the ground to freeze and planted in a bed made on 

 the cellar floor January 18. They were screened ofif 

 with an old carpet curtain and a common lamp and 

 lantern with darkened chimneys used to give the 

 required heat. The bed was ready to cut February 



