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ances of smut have been picked off, no better method 

 presenting itself. 



Onions sold for a good price. One-half bushel 

 were selected and sent to the county fair at Greenfield. 

 A premium of two dollars was awarded them. Two 

 mammoth squashes, weighing seventy-five pounds 

 apiece, were in the garden September 30. 



Having all the vegetables our family could eat, 

 selling some and giving away, my experience has 

 proven that with the best tools and fertilizers and a 

 careful method of cultivation, an enjoyable and profit- 

 able garden will be the result. 



Most of the peas were soaked for twenty-four 

 hours before sowing and came up two days sooner 

 than those not soaked. The wheel cultivator was used 

 two weeks later, throwing the dirt from the rows. 



The ground was not firmed after planting the 

 seed, as Mr. Campliell believes the loose soil prevents 

 excessive evaporation and assists the seeds to come 

 up quickly. 



The IVoodrnif Pri.cc Garden. — Some look upon 

 the home garden as merely a plot of ground in which 

 to grow vegetables to eat — a place that produces a few 

 good things through lots of backache, sore fingers and 

 weeds. Others see in the garden a place for study and 

 recreation, and the drudgery of planting, weeding and 

 hoeing becomes a pleasure. A man of the latter type 

 is Charles Pierson Augur of New Haven county, Con- 

 necticut, who won the first special prize for the best 

 report of a garden planted with Woodruff's seeds. His 

 garden comprised four-fifths of an acre and returned 

 eighty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents profit over 

 and above expenses. 



The soil was a heavy loam underlaid with slate, 

 and the garden was divided into two plots, one lying 

 to the south and west on an incline and the other at 



