46 PRIZE GARDENING 



Minnesota, sixth Allen prize winner. Land being- more 

 plenty than labor, the methods were directed toward 

 production of most returns for least labor. Nothing 

 was crowded. Even the onions and beets were in 

 rows three feet apart, so that they could be cultivated 

 by horse and wheel hoes. Onions were weeded twice 

 by hand, also some other crops. 



The financial results are worked out clearly and 

 with care, showing total income of eight hundred and 

 twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents and net profit 

 of five hundred and ninety dollars and ninety cents. 

 No manure or fertilizer seems to have been used, and 

 the main charge is two hundred and thirty-two dollars 

 and fifty-five cents for labor, most of which is for one 

 man, with an extra hand for three or four months. In 

 round sums the labor cost twenty-five dollars in May, 

 fifty dollars in June, fifty dollars in July, thirty-eight 

 dollars in August, forty-seven dollars in September and 

 twenty-three dollars in October, the account including 

 every stroke of labor done. Mr. Hill seems to have 

 solved the problem of making a living from six acres, 

 even in a season unfavorable to some crops. An inter- 

 esting feature of his account is the valuation of crops 

 expressed in rate per acre, which is as follows in even 

 dollars : 



Beets, per acre, one hundred and twenty-five dol- 

 lars ; cabbage, one hundred and eleven dollars ; car- 

 rots, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; cauli- 

 flower, one hundred and fifty-three dollars ; sweet corn, 

 ninety-two dollars ; cucumbers, one hundred and twen- 

 ty-nine dollars ; currants, sixty-seven dollars ; ground 

 cherries, two hundred and thirteen dollars ; gooseber- 

 ries, ninety-five dollars ; lettuce, one hundred and thirty 

 dollars ; muskmelons, one hundred and sixty-four dol- 

 lars ; onions, one hundred and forty-five dollars ; pars- 

 nips, two hundred and four dollars ; pepper eighty-six 



