Il6 PRIZE GARDENING 



cents ; labor, six dollars and forty-five cents ; seeds, 

 two dollars. The vegetables were valued at twenty- 

 eight dollars and twenty-two cents ; leaving sixteen 

 dollars and twenty-seven cents profit. Potatoes, 

 squashes and cabbages were the largest items, and these 

 vegetables seem to thrive in most of the fertilizer gar- 

 dens on new land. The garden account received a 

 five-dollar Bowker prize. 



