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PRIZE GARDENING 



one-third acre produced vegetables valued at forty- 

 three dollars and eighty-five cents. He applied four 

 loads of barn manure and one load of hen manure. 

 The wheel hoe^ he thinks, enabled him sometimes to 

 accomplish a day's work in two hours. Melons were 

 the most successful crop, and he saved plenty of seed 

 for another year. Between the severe drouth and some 

 robber cows which ate twenty head of cabbages, Willie 

 had his troubles, but father and brother helped take care 



WEALTH II K. PALMER 



of the garden, and the owner was one of the few juve- 

 nile prize winners. 



A Boy Gardener Who Won a five-dollar prize is 

 Walter R. Palmer, Victoria, British Columbia. Some 

 of the work was done by a Chinaman at seventy-five 

 cents a day. But another phase of the Chinese prob- 

 lem proved unfavorable to profits, since Walter com- 

 plains that " so many Chinamen here make their living 

 by growing and peddling fresh vegetables that it does 

 not pay white people to grow them for sale." Such 



