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injurious to early vegetables. A gorgeous row of nas- 

 turtiums added to the garden's attractiveness. The 

 account well deserved the five-dollar prize awarded. 



Quarter-acre Garden of Jere O'Keefe, Massachu- 

 setts, was fresh turned sod from a run-out mowing 

 field which had not been manured for ten years. Fer- 

 tilizer was sown broadcast and harrowed in at the rate 

 of two tons per acre, and nineteen kinds of seed were 

 planted. Beans, cucumbers, beets and potatoes did 

 well ; melons, carrots and onions failed. Other sorts 

 did fairly well. Income, forty-three dollars and fifty- 

 three cents ; cost, thirty-one dollars and seventy cents ; 

 profit, eleven dollars and eighty-three cents. 



A Net Profit of Ninety-tzvo Dollars and Forty- 

 three Cents is recorded from a little more than an acre 

 and three-quarters, by J. G. Lyman, Connecticut, 

 besides an amount nearly as large charged off for labor. 

 The account won a Rawson five-dollar prize. The 

 land was good loam, second year from sod, and was 

 given fertilizer at the rate of one thousand five hundred 

 pounds per acre at a cost of forty-two dollars and fif- 

 teen cents. Income was two hundred and sixty-three 

 dollars and fifteen cents. The produce came early and 

 brought good prices, but Mr. Lyman thinks his greatest 

 mistake was in not starting work early enough in 

 the spring. 



A Very Highly Fertilized One-third Acre was de- 

 scribed by Bert A. Hall, Massachusetts. The plot re- 

 ceived one thousand five hundred pounds high grade 

 fertilizer, twenty bushels ashes and one and one-half 

 cords manure. The soil was rather thin and dry. Results 

 were disappointing, as the proceeds, sixty-four dollars 

 and forty-nine cents, were exceeded by the cost, 

 seventy-three dollars and ninety-six cents, by a loss of 

 nine dollars and forty-seven cents. The charge for 

 wear and tear of tools was, however, too great (thirteen 



