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bore was an effective dose for cabbage worms, taking 

 of each substance equal parts and diluting with four 

 times the bulk of flour. 



A Home Farm Garden which yielded the family 

 supply of fruit and green stuff at a net profit of thirty- 

 nine dollars and eighty-eight cents was described by 

 A. P. Hitchcock of New York. This grower was for- 

 tunate in having little trouble with insects or drouth. 

 Five hills of cucumbers vielded over three bushels, 



A GARDEN SITE IX THE MINNESOTA FOREST 



mostly of pickling size. Every cabbage, of which 

 there were five varieties, made a head, and from forty- 

 five cauliflower plants there were forty-seven heads, 

 as some of the stumps sent out a second crop of sprouts. 

 Strazi'bcrrics and other fruits were the most 

 important products of the Rawson five-dollar prize 

 garden described by C. R. Knapp, Connecticut. Oper- 

 ations were conducted at a loss, owing to rather heavy 

 charges for labor at twenty cents per hour, and to the 

 fact that the bearing strawberry bed was an old one, 



