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was five bushels beets, twenty-five quarts peas, two 

 and one-fourth bushels beans, twenty quarts turnips, 

 twenty-two quarts carrots and two dollars and ten 

 cents worth of lettuce and parsley, the total value being 

 fifteen dollars and ninety-eight cents. The crop was 

 produced at a loss of about eight dollars, largely 

 because of labor with unsuccessful second crops. The 

 labor bill alone amounted to eleven dollars and twenty- 

 one cents. 



About One-third of an Acre in eastern Massachu- 

 setts, entered by L. E. Burnham, won a five-dollar 

 Rawson special. The surplus produce w^as sold to 

 summer cottagers, amounting to one-half the total 

 value. Income, sixty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents ; 

 cost, forty-three dollars and forty-seven cents; profit, 

 eighteen dollars and twenty-two cents. This is his 

 first garden, and he thinks he could do better by deep 

 plowing and more liberal manuring. The garden was 

 planted in straight rows with a good assortment and 

 constant succession of standard vegetables. The value 

 of labor at fifteen cents per hour amounted to twelve 

 dollars and twenty cents for eighty-one and one-fourth 

 hours, a sum only two-thirds the receipts for surplus 

 products. There was about two weeks' work in May, 

 one in June, one in July, two in August and two in 

 September. Not beginning to plant until May i, and 

 doing practically all the cultivating with a wheel hoe, 

 the very important item of labor was much reduced. 

 It would seem that any farmer might well spare eight 

 days to be thus repaid, both in cash and in garden food. 



