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stand until large enough to transplant where they are 

 to mature, the lettuce to make heads for use. The 

 lettuce was placed six inches apart in the row, the 

 cabbage two inches apart. I used a pointed wooden 

 drill and transplanted as heretofore described. 



A Prhne Garden on Cheinicals. — By pinning his 

 faith to commercial fertilizer in lavish quantity, E. N. 

 Foote of Massachusetts secured a good garden, not- 

 withstanding the drouth. The profit was one hundred 

 and twenty-seven per cent on cost, and his concise 

 account secured him the third special prize. 



This was strictly a fertilizer garden, not a spoon- 

 ful of manure having been used on the land for the 

 past ten years, during which time the piece was in sod 

 until the year preceding the garden, when onions had 

 been grown there on fertilizer. The area was about 

 one-sixth of an acre and the soil the porous, sandy 

 loam of the Connecticut river valley. It was plowed 

 and harrowed in fall and again in spring, followed by 

 rolling. Declares Mr. Foote : " My experience has 

 been that no labor pays better for a seed crop than to 

 thoroughly firm the ground, filling all the air spaces 

 and preventing the rapid evaporation of soil water." 



High grade fertilizer was applied broadcast at rate 

 of two tons per acre and harrowed in. Cultivation of 

 the garden was thorough and frequent, a wheel hoe 

 being used. Of the seventeen vegetables grown, four- 

 teen showed a profit and three a small loss. The best 

 showing was with winter squash, which on one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and twenty square feet produced 

 sixteen dollars and eighty-four cents worth, at a cost 

 of four dollars and sixty-one cents. Small areas of 

 radishes, cabbages, beets, lettuce, cucumbers and toma- 

 toes proved very profitable. Sweet corn, although sold 

 at good prices, fifteen to twenty-five cents per dozen. 



