GARDENING FOR PROFIT 4I 



well cultivated. This rule applies for setting black 

 raspberries and blackberries. 



Land that will grow a fair crop of corn will grow 

 tomatoes. I plow my land in the fall, and in the spring 

 disk, lapping one-half. Drag, plank, and drag and 

 plank again, then mark four and one-half feet each 

 way. Use a heavy one-horse marker. Mark as deep 

 as possible, and if the land is mellow dig the holes with 

 the hands. We set three and one-half acres this 

 spring. When we are ready to set we take one horse 

 and a stone boat and set the plants on the boat, and 

 drive between the rows ; one man to drop them and 

 two men to set them. The plants are dropped on each 

 crossing, using our hands to dig the holes. Set the 

 ]jlants in ; press the dirt firmly about the plants ; when 

 they have been set one week, fill in. if any are missing, 

 and cultivate each way. I give them all the cultivating 

 I can. We have a nice clean patch, plenty of fruit 

 and never had a hoe in them. 



A Gardener's Calendar. — The routine of a good- 

 sized farm market garden is also related in a very help- 

 ful manner by a successful contestant, G. J. Townsend, 

 of Wayne county. New York, and his story is quoted 

 below for the five busy months beginning with : 



April. — I plowed about nine or ten inches deep. 

 Potatoes I planted in drills about fourteen inches by 

 three feet, four or five inches deep. Onion seed I 

 sowed in drills fourteen inches apart. Beets and car- 

 rots I sowed in drills two feet apart. The above 

 ground T harrowed three or four times and rolled ; 

 the last time I attached a plank behind the harrow to 

 leave it smooth. The rhubarb and asparasfus beds I 

 dug up about three or four inches deep. Seed pota- 

 toes I cut two or three eyes in a piece. T raked off 

 about half the straw from the strawberry bed, leaving 

 the rest for mulching and to keep the berries clean. 



