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dollars and seventy-eight cents. At our fair 1 took 

 first prize for best collection of vegetables and pre- 

 miums to the amount oi eight dollars and forty cents, 

 making the total income from the garden seventy dol- 

 lars and eighteen cents, and the profit sixteen dollars 

 and fifty-tiiree cents. Besides having plenty of fresh 

 vegetables, I found the work in the open air was of 

 great benefit to my health. 



.1 Good Home Garden was operated by Estella 

 Arney of Illinois. The garden is seventy-four by one 

 hundred and two feet, with a path through the center 

 lengthwise and a row of currants and gooseberries on 

 either side. Along the outside boundaries are a row 

 of raspberries, twelve bunches of rhubarb, several of 

 horse-radish, twelve grapes, six bunches winter onions, 

 sage and a few stalks of flowers. The tools used were 

 a hoe, rake and spading fork. Four loads of stable 

 manure for fertilizer. During April four days' work 

 was done plowing the garden, planting sixty hills of 

 potatoes, four of cucumbers and sowing onion, cabbage 

 and lettuce seed. There were gathered nineteen 

 bunches of onions and five of horse-radish and eighty 

 cents spent for seeds. 



Tn May, two and one-fifth days' labor was put in 

 planting beans, sweet corn and beets, transplanting 

 three hundred cabbages, fifty mango peppers, sixty 

 tomatoes and hoeing onions, while the products were 

 two bunches rhubarb, twelve beets, thirty bunches 

 onions, three messes radishes and six of lettuce. The 

 late table beets, butter beans and bunch beans and 

 lettuce were planted in June, two hundred and fifty late 

 cabbages set, celery transplanted and the garden hoed 

 several times, two and one-half days' work being given 

 in all. The products were forty bunches of onions, 

 three and one-quarter bushels lettuce, twenty-five cents 

 worth radishes, four and one-half gallons gooseberries, 



