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a reliable basis of estimate and is the only thing of the 

 kind ever published. 



EXPENSE AND PROFIT OF THE GARDEN 



Farm Village 



Size, square feet 24,372 14,866 



Value of garden $48.81 $568.34 



Value of tools i8.6i 16.93 



Interest and taxes 3.21 '2.2.']2t 



Use of tools 1.27 1.70 



Labor 26.34 19-59 



Seed 4.32 8.68 



Fertilizer 7.75 7.12 



Incidental expenses 78 .50 



Total cost 43.67 60.32 



Value of products used 5404 54-50 



Value of products sold 30.96 7.06 



Total value of products 85.00 61.56 



Profit 41.33 1.28 



Gardens have been separated into two classes 

 — those on farms and those planted by village residents, 

 and an interesting comparison can be made between the 

 two, as shown in the accompanying table. Size and 

 value are the two most noticeable differences. The 

 farmer who wants a garden either takes the little 

 fenced-in spot that has served for this purpose for so 

 many years, or goes out in the field and lays off a piece 

 of half an acre, or as much as needed. The village 

 and city resident is confined to the back yard or the 

 vacant lot. Thus his plot is necessarily smaller and 

 being valuable for building purposes is worth more 

 than the country garden. The figures for value are 

 the average of fifty-six village gardens, which range 

 from twenty-five dollars to one thousand eight hundred 

 and seventy-five dollars in value, and at the rate of 

 from one hundred dollars to over four thousand dollars 

 per acre. The range of value per acre of farm gardens 

 is not quite as great, being as low as five dollars per 

 acre for unimproved prairie land, to three hundred 

 dollars for small California farms with irrigation 



