l68 PRIZE GARDENING 



pit. The effect of the hquid manure began to show in 

 thirty-six hours. 



Water was supphecl the garden from a branch 

 lateral ditch running at right angles to the seventy long 

 rows which comprised the garden. Through inch- 

 square openings the water was conducted between the 

 rows along a small furrow made for it with a shovel 

 plow or with a hand plow with furrowing attachment. 

 Irrigation was performed about once in ten days, occu- 

 pying only about fifteen minutes morning or night. 

 Income from the garden was two hundred and thirty- 

 two dollars and ninety-seven cents ; paid for seed, 

 twelve dollars and eighty-five cents ; for manure, five 

 dollars ; labor, thirty-two dollars and ten cents ; interest 

 on land, thirty dollars ; incidentals, nine dollars and 

 seventy-five cents ; total cost, eighty-nine dollars and 

 seventy cents ; profit, one hundred and forty-three dol- 

 lars and twentv-seven cents. 



