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from my early rising- 1 never experienced before. The 

 bracing- and invigorating air soon proved very bene- 

 ficial to my condition and I recovered and gained 

 l-ealth and strength almost as fast as the crops grew 

 m the garden." 



The First Price Garden. — The winner of the first 

 of the regular prizes, submitting an account hard to 

 excel for clearness and discriminating completeness, 

 gained his success under the severe handicaps of 



SOME JULY PRIZE VEGETABLES 



broken health and the failure of important crops. Mr. 

 B. S. Higley, Mahoning county, Ohio, is sixty-two 

 years old, and disabled from practice as a lawyer by 

 disease contracted in the civil war. Although able to 

 perform but little work, he finds outdoor life good for 

 his health. His garden is city building land of high 

 valuation. The garden that year showed no profit; 

 expenses of about one hundred and twenty dollars 

 being offset by crops of practically the same value, 

 but the lack of cash gain was not due to any lack of 



