SUCCESS IN TOWN OR CITY 



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A City Garden Patch, two-thirds of an acre in a 

 Massachusetts city, was planted to one-half acre 

 onions and the rest turnips, celery, tomatoes, beets, 

 spinach, lettuce, etc., the produce being- sold to con- 

 sumers. Manure was hauled from the city and some 

 fertilizer was used. Tools and team were valued at 

 two hundred and twenty dollars and land at one hun- 

 dred dollars. Mr. G. E. Belden, who was awarded a 



RESIDENCE OF R. I.. PORTER 



Rawson five-dollar prize, estimates that the g-arden 

 patch paid fifteen cents per hour for labor of owner, 

 and a clear profit besides of one hundred and thirty- 

 seven dollars and eighty-three cents. Onion weeders 

 were paid fifty cents per day. Onions sold at forty 

 cents per bushel. 



Fighting Borers and JJ^ifch Grass. — Located in a 

 fertile valley of western Massachusetts and employed 

 most of the time in an office, R. L. Porter found oppor- 



