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while robber cows and birds stole the most of what 

 was left. 



An extended and hig-hly detailed account of gar- 

 den operations came from two ladies of New York 

 state, L. A. and E. S. Denslow, receiving a five-dollar 

 Rawson prize. Dry weather and scarcity of labor were 

 serious drawbacks, but from the three thousand seven 



HOME OF MRS. J. W. BRYAN 



hundred square feet came an income of forty-seven 

 dollars and sixty-nine cents, at a cost of twenty-five 

 dollars and ninety-nine cents. Profit, twenty-one dol- 

 lars and seventy cents. The growers considered most 

 of the crops unsatisfactory, but were pleased with the 

 profuse yield of sweet peas, of which great quantities 

 were grown for ornament. 



