FERTILIZER GARDENS 



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dollars and thirteen cents) for the area in which they 

 were used, and it might fairly be said that the account 

 came out nearly even. The experience tends to show 

 that old, thin soil and a dry season combine unfavor- 

 able conditions for lavish use of fertilizer. The account 

 won a Rawson five-dollar prize. 



A Good Family Garden of one thousand one hun- 

 dred and seventy-five square feet is reported by J. 

 Stark, Connecticut. With five hundred pounds fertilizer 



MRS. W. D. GOSS 



broadcast and harrowed in he raised crops worth forty- 

 three dollars and eighty-six cents at a cost of thirty 

 dollars and twenty-eight cents, leaving thirteen dollars 

 and fifty-eight cents profit. 



Fertilizer at the rate of two tons to the acre made 

 an excellent little garden of two thousand square feet 

 of sod land owned by Mrs. W. D. Goss, Vermont. 

 Half the fertilizer was applied broadcast and the rest 

 in hill or drill. Fertilizer cost three dollars and fifty 



