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were grown. Fertilizers cost ten dollars and seventy- 

 five cents, of which the largest item was five dollars 

 for five barrels ashes. Hen manure, stable manure and 

 phosphate were also used. Much of the work was done 

 by a ten-years-old son with a wheel hoe. Hoeing the 

 entire garden before the vegetables came up proved a 

 fine plan for killing weeds. This contestant received 

 a Rawson five-dollar award. 



Writing in June, 1901, Mrs. Hall says: " I have 

 doubled the size of last year's garden and hired my son 

 by the month to till it. He is eleven years old, and I 

 give him three dollars a month, the money to be put 

 in bank. I believe an acre of garden the most remu- 

 nerative one on the farm if worked to its best. We 

 had squashes, beets and roots of all kinds till April this 

 year, which I think is the result of ripening early and 

 care in harvesting." 



A Native of Gamany, and inexperienced in writ- 

 ing English, Mrs. Clara Kuntze, Daggett, Michigan, 

 told the story of her half-acre garden in a manner suffi- 

 ciently clear and accurate to secure a Rawson five- 

 dollar prize. The garden was tended by two women 

 folk, and seems to have been a success. It included 

 such unusual vegetables as lintels, red cabbage, kohl- 

 rabi. Use was made of liquid manure and straw mulch. 

 Cabbage seed was planted in check rows and the plants 

 thinned out. Income was fifty-two dollars and fifty- 

 one cents, and expenses, twenty-one dollars and 

 forty-seven cents ; leaving thirty-one dollars and 

 four cents net. 



A Model Account of a rather poor and unsatis- 

 factory garden was submitted by Amelia C. Guild, and, 

 according to the terms of the contest, received a special 

 Rawson twenty-five -dollar prize, although the cost of 

 the garden was four times the income. 



