GOOD FARM GARDENS 6 1 



four rows of strawberries, one and one-half rows of 

 currants and half a row of raspberries. The currants 

 gave ninety-six quarts, while the others were just com- 

 ing into bearing. 



Instead of using brush or poultry netting for peas, 

 a trellis was made by driving heavy posts at each end 

 of the row and stretching No. 12 wire at top and bot- 

 tom. The end posts were well braced and lighter 

 posts put in every eight or ten feet. Common grocers' 

 twine was woven from the top to the bottom wire and 

 the vines clung to this. After plowing, the garden 

 was top-dressed with stable manure and thoroughly 

 harrowed to mix and fine the soil and manure. Then 

 the clod crusher was used to smooth and level the sur- 

 face, after which it was marked off in rows as straight 

 as possible, two feet four inches apart. The Planet 

 Jr seed drill was used for sowing and planting every- 

 thing but corn and potatoes, which were dropped by 

 hand and covered with a common hoe. 



The first planting was done May 4, when onion 

 sets, peas and beans were put in, followed the next 

 day by plantings of lettuce, radish, beets, carrots, kohl- 

 rabi, turnips, rutabaga, sage and potatoes. There were 

 also raised cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, celery, 

 tomatoes, peppers and cabbage. The illustration gives 

 a good idea of the way vegetables will grow if they 

 receive a little work at the right time. 



Hozv to Raise the Most Possible from a garden 

 patch forty by fifty feet was the problem before W. P. 

 Gray, Westchester county. New York, a five-dollar 

 prize winner. He tried to solve it by planting some 

 very late second crops, but concludes that another year 

 he would plant nothing after August i, and thinks late 

 planted peas and beans do not pay. He used two loads 

 of manure and two hundred pounds fertilizer. The 

 garden was cultivated with a wheel hoe. The yield 



