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raised on a small plot by doing a little planning so as to 

 get two crops from the same land. 



"No more should be planted," observes Mrs. L. AI. 

 A. Hall, "than one has room to allow to grow to its 

 largest size of perfection, and time to cultivate prop- 

 erly. It does not pay to grow an ill-fed, stunted, 

 crowded, ill-cared-for plant, any more than it does such 

 a child." Another contestant was taught that "how- 

 ever well one may do, there is always somebody who 

 can do better." B. S. Rembaugh brought away the 

 idea that "it is wise to always do everything the very 

 best I know how, regardless of circumstances." 



"We learned that the strongest plants only should 

 be set, and the weaklings thrown away," says G. W. 

 Hoover. Declares A. C. Abrams : "We have ever 

 prided ourselves on having a good garden, and neigh- 

 bors and friends have often acknowledged the fact that 

 we were leaders in the van. But the garden contest 

 proved its merits in a financial point of view, thereby 

 stimulating us to a more thorough management of the 

 whole thing in detail. Our experience has proven con- 

 clusively, not only for a ten days' trial, but for a whole 

 year, that vegetables and fruit for diet are much more 

 healthful and palatable, say nothing about the econ- 

 omy, than so much of the strong meat and the king's 

 wine." 



"Perhaps the most important lesson learned from 

 my experience in the prize garden contest," concludes 

 W. K. Cole, "was the necessity for attention to details ; 

 the small things that are so apt to be overlooked — often 

 the difference between failure and loss. Success and 

 profit depend upon these little things and immediate 

 attention. The man or woman, boy or girl, who can 

 and does do the right thing at the right time is an 

 assured success." 



