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milked two cows and worked in my mother's garden. 

 My present garden w^as a neglected spot six years ago, 

 with only a few old apple and cherry trees scattered 

 here and there. The soil is a rich loam, with a gravelly 

 subsoil. The shape of the lot, containing something 

 over two acres, is shown in the sketch, while the garden 

 proper, which is L-shaped, contains thirty-two thou- 

 sand four hundred square feet. The pasture lot is 

 fenced with a woven wire picket fence four feet high, 

 placed on top of ten-inch boards, above which are two 

 strands of barbed wire. A heavy woven wire fence 

 separates the garden from the pasture and extends 

 around the eastern side of the barn to the pigeon cote. 

 In the passageway between the fences is a gate hung 

 fourteen inches from the ground, which allows the 

 poultry free range of the pasture lot. All the pea and 

 bean vines, the turnip and beet tops, cornstalks and 

 cabbage leaves and the various green trimmings are 

 consumed by the little Jersey cow. The poultry also 

 come in as scavengers and give valuable returns. 



A pit for storing vegetables is a rectangular hole 

 in the ground, four feet wide, five and one-half feet 

 long and three feet deep. It is lined with rough 

 boards to keep the earth from falling in, and has a 

 covering also of rough straw to protect from frosts. 

 This pit is easy of access at all times during winter, 

 and celery and other vegetables stored in it keep 

 perfectly. 



For Poisons and Fertilizers I have an oil barrel 

 with one head out, which I keep in a convenient place 

 and fill with water and cow droppings to make liquid 

 manure for flowers and vegetables. I also have a half 

 barrel in which is kept dissolved blue vitriol in the 

 proportion of five pounds to fifty gallons of water. In 

 a keg I keep slaked lime. A mixture of these two I 

 spray on grapevines, rose bushes, etc. White hellebore 



