6o PRIZE GARDENING 



thirty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents. With 

 both of the above crops nitrate of soda was hoed in 

 during" cultivation. Winter squashes, planted June 20, 

 did fairly well for so late, being a second crop after 

 beans and peas. 



Total income of the garden was four hundred and 

 eighty-seven dollars and fourteen cents ; manure, 

 eighty-four dollars and forty-four cents; seed and 

 plants, fourteen dollars and eighty-five cents; labor, 

 one hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-fivq 

 cents ; interest and taxes, two dollars and twenty-eight 

 cents ; total cost, two hundred and ninety-four dollars 

 and thirty-two cents ; net, one hundred and ninety-two 

 dollars and eighty-two cents. 



A Busy Farmer's Garden. — " A busy farmer can 

 have a good garden if he«will only make the effort," 

 says Oscar R. Widmer^ one of the successful contest- 

 ants, whose kitchen garden plot, eighty-nine by one 

 hundred and twenty feet in size, produced thirty-two 

 dollars and twelve cents worth of vegetables at a cost 

 of sixteen dollars and ninety cents for labor, seed and 

 fertilizer. The garden was of a gravelly loam, lying 

 on an eastern slope, and prior to 1890 it was in grass. 

 Then for four years it was planted to corn and since 

 1894 has been used as a garden. The rows were 

 laid out the long way of the plot so as to permit of 

 horse cultivation, and no hand work in consequence 

 was done. 



Mr. Widmer adds : "As soon as possible after 

 planting, the cultivator is started to 'nip the weeds in 

 the bud' as it were. This does away with the tedious 

 hand weeding that must be done where the garden is 

 small and located in some out-of-the-way corner. The 

 work is mostly done in leisure moments and is a source 

 of great pleasure, irrespective of profit." At the begin- 

 ning of operations there were growing in the garden 



