100 PRIZE GARDENING 



Nearly all the products were consumed in the family 

 and stored for winter use. 



From a Quarter Acre Garden on town lots in 

 Griggsville, Illinois, L. J. Eastman, winner of a five- 

 dollar regular prize, secured products worth fifty-four 

 dollars and ninety cents at a cash outlay of one dollar 

 and ninety-five cents for manure, two dollars and 

 seventy-six cents for seed and eight dollars and twenty- 

 three cents for work. Profit, forty-one dollars and 

 ninety-six cents. In addition he personally performed 

 five dollars and fifty-three cents worth of labor, which 

 he thinks was offset by the pleasure and health received. 

 This town garden, says Mr. Eastman, has furnished 

 the family, numbering from ten to two, with all the 

 fruit and vegetables required, except potatoes, in a bad 

 potato year, and of late years has placed considerable 

 produce on the local market. The time devoted to the 

 garden was one hundred and twelve hours man's work 

 and nine hours boys' work. 



A Productive Little Suburban Garden of two- 

 fifths of an acre was entered by A. W. Dickson, Massa- 

 chusetts, receiving a Rawson five-dollar prize. Soil 

 was good loam and was enriched with three cords of 

 stable manure and two hundred pounds fertilizer. 

 Celery, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes and peppers 

 were started in a cold frame. Space being valuable 

 it was saved whenever possible, following early crops 

 with cabbage, celery, turnips, winter spinach. Cab- 

 bages were set as late as August 12, but were much 

 inferior to those set in July. Some celery plants w^re 

 set a foot apart each way, but the extra labor of the 

 method more than offset the saving in space. Receipts 

 from this garden were sixty-three dollars and ninety- 

 five cents. Cost, not including labor of owner, thirty- 

 six dollars and seventy-five cents. 



