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marketed in large quantities, such, for instance, as 

 onions, squash, turnips, carrots and sweet corn. 



The small market gardens of those contestants 

 who sent in reports gave a net profit of one hundred 

 and seventeen dollars and two cents per acre. They 

 averaged two and one-half acres in size, were valued 

 at three hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty- 

 two cents, or one hundred and forty-three dol- 

 lars and twenty cents per acre, and produced four 

 hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-three 

 cents worth of products, or at the rate of one 

 hundred and ninety-nine dollars per acre, at a 

 cost of one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and 

 twenty-seven cents, or eighty-one dollars and ninety 

 cents per acre. The value of tools used was fifty- 

 five dollars and fifty-seven cents. The labor cost 

 one hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-one cents, 

 seed fifteen dollars and fifty cents, fertilizers twenty- 

 two dollars and twenty-five cents, interest and taxes 

 twenty-four dollars and seventeen cents, use of tools 

 three dollars and eighty-nine cents, and incidental 

 expenses six dollars and eighty-five cents. These lat- 

 ter included barrels, boxes and baskets, twine, poles, 

 insect poisons, etc. 



The family consumed fifteen per cent of the total 

 productions, or sixty-seven dollars and fifteen cents 

 worth, which is considerably more than the amount 

 used from the farm and village gardens. This is 

 partly accounted for by the fact that the sweet corn 

 fodder, poor cabbage and many of the beets, turnips 

 and carrots were fed to the stock, and figured in with 

 the amount consumed. It is highly probable that the 

 actual average consumption per family was also 

 greater, owing to there being a greater abundance of 

 vegetables on hand at all seasons. 



Reducing the figures to a basis of an acre, we find 



