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ready, on a certain Tuesday he starts a mixed row 

 of plantings about like this: 



"Kind 

 Lettuce 

 Beans 

 Beets 

 Carrots 

 Kale 

 Spinach 

 Turnips 

 Corn 

 Mustard 

 Onion 

 Peas 



Egg-plant 

 Tomato 

 Cabbage 

 Radishes 

 Celery 



Amount per person 



7 plants, 6 inches apart 

 .'J seeds, 4 inches apart 



6 inches, sown thickly 



4 inches, sown thickly 



3 inches, sown thickly 



3 to 5 inches, sown thickly 



6 inches 



6 grains Bantam variety 



1 plant for whole season 



8 sets, two inches apart 

 10-f't. row, inoculate and lime 

 1 plant for whole season 



1 plant for whole season 

 1 plant weekly, constant moisture 

 Sow thickly between last four 

 Plant a solid row, 8 feet per person 



"The following Tuesday he will use the same list, 

 except egg-plant and tomato, and then will have two 

 of his thirty-foot rows coming along. These small 

 rows he must ardently care for every morning after the 

 few chickens and rabbits are fed. 



"Acreculture of this character must be allied with 

 two walnut, olive and ahuacate trees, several raisin 

 grapevines, prunes, figs, peaches, apricots, enough for 

 drying and canning, chickens, pigeons and rabbits (in- 

 stead of a pup) and a hive for the honeybee. 



"It is a notable fact, and lamentable, that the ten- 



