THE HOME ACRE 



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thirty per cent charged off for selhng. Expenses were 

 heavy, the work bein.c^ mostly done by hand tools. For 

 fertilizer was used a barrel of ashes and ni^^ht soil 

 valued at two dollars and twenty cents. Total cost, 

 seven dollars and ninety-five cents. The account 

 received a five-dollar award. 



A Farm Garden Patch of less than half an acre 

 returned Charles Coolidge of New York, a Bowker 



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five-dollar prize winner, the sum of forty-five dollars 

 and seventy-nine cents at a cost of twenty-four dollars 

 and fifty-nine cents. In addition, Mr. Coolidge thinks 

 the land was put in condition to yield twice as much 

 the following- year. It could be made more profitable, 

 he says, by putting in what one thinks would sell best 

 in the local market. He believes also that the land 

 should have been plowed in the fall and replowed 

 in spring. 



