EXPERIMENTAL GARDENING IQI 



twenty-eight dollars. Customers were mostly the 

 neighboring Osage Indians, who seem to have paid 

 prices fully equal to the average in other sections. The 

 account received one of the regular prizes. 



Saz'cd Her Ozcn Seeds. — Seeds for her garden 

 cost JMrs. Alice C. Strader, Columbia county, Wiscon- 

 sin, only ten cents, since she has for years made a 

 practice of saving many kinds of vegetable and flower 

 seeds from specimens of her own growing. Free 

 seeds from the United States department of agricul- 

 ture also helped out at planting time. The seed item 

 in this garden shows a balance on the credit side, since 

 the value of those saved far exceeds those planted. 



MRS. ALICE C. STRADER 



The one-third acre yielded thirty-three dollars and 

 twenty cents, of which the largest item was seven dol- 

 lars for fourteen bushels of tomatoes. Labor cost 

 eight dollars and twenty-five cents, and manure one 

 dollar and sixty-five cents at twenty-five cents per load. 

 Net profit, twenty-two dollars and eighty cents. 



High Feeding for Plants. — Interesting experi- 

 ments have been carried on in plant feeding by G. M. 

 Sherman of Ham.pden county. Massachusetts. His 

 plan in brief is to supply liquid fertilizers by means 

 of a porous jar buried a foot or more beneath the 

 surface and filled from time to time through a tube 

 projecting above the ground. 



