l62 PRIZE GARDENING 



Egg plant seems to have been the best paying 

 crop, having sold about three thousand seven hundred 

 pounds of fruit at average price of two and one-tliird 

 cents per pound for eighty-seven dollars and twenty- 

 six cents, and a net profit of twenty-four dollars. Pep- 

 pers averaged about the same price per pound. Toma- 

 toes brought fifteen cents per hundred and sweet 

 potatoes one to two and three-fourths cents per pound. 



The net profit of this garden was fifty-three dol- 

 lars and five cents, but as Mr. Ashley did all the labor 

 himself his actual returns, after paying bills, were two 

 hundred and ten dollars and twenty-eight cents. 



In the Mountain Section. — Among the difficulties 

 which hinder the gardener in Idaho are the cold sum- 

 mer nights and frosts, wdiich conditions make such 

 crops as tomatoes, €:gg plants and sweet corn hard to 

 raise, but correspondingly high in price. Mrs. W. S. 

 Jackson, Idaho Falls, Idaho, tried raising these tender 

 vegetables in an irrigated garden, but frost killed most 

 of them. Other years she has had better success. The 

 hardy plants like cabbage did well and this vegetable 

 occupied a greater part of the garden. Receipts from 

 the tract of one acre were one hundred and ninety 

 dollars and two cents ; expenses, one hundred and three 

 dollars and twenty-seven cents ; profit, eighty-six dol- 

 lars and seventy-five cents. Writes Mrs. Jackson : 



After we had plowed our garden we harrowed it 

 crosswise of the plowing, after which we rolled it. 

 Then w^e take a Hster plow and ridge it; that is, we 

 plow a furrow about every four feet. This is to make 

 the ditches for irrigating. As this leaves the ridges too 

 high and uneven, we take the harrow again and slant 

 the teeth pretty well back and go over the ground 

 lengthwise of the rows. Now it is ready to seed ; with 

 a drill it does not take long. We do not use the marker 

 on these ridges, but take the drill and keep it as near 



