MARCH 15, 1916 



er ones instead. Tims I kept gradually working 

 info better and more healthful ways of living until 

 I got everything about right according to the book. 

 As the days and weeks went by I very slowly and 

 surely began to improve, and now, after several 

 months following the advice as taught in " How to 

 Keep Well and Live Long," I can say that I have 

 been greatly benefited in health, and expect to keep 



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on gaining until fully restored to health. My great 

 est regret is that I did not have or know of these 

 things sooner in life. I feel, personally, full of grat- 

 itude to Mr. Terry for the book and for what it has 

 done for me. He certainly has accomplished a great 

 work which will be a blessing to the human race if 

 it will but follow the truth Mr. Terry has put be- 

 fore them. — A. W. McMaster, Jacobsburg, Ohio. 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 



GLIMPSES OF OUR FLORIDA GARDEN, TAKEN 

 ABOUT FEB. 15. 



No. 1 shows bow it is thrown up in beds, 

 with deep wide paths between. These paths 

 not only answer to some extent the place of 

 tile draining, but they run the cold air down 

 toward the canal, so that when we have a 

 moderate frost or freeze my stuff is mostly 

 unharmed, when garden truck on dead-level 

 land is often killed outright. Nothing has 

 been harmed in our garden so far (Feb. 

 21), except sweet potatoes. We are just 

 now digging- and selling our Irish potatoes 

 at 25 cts. per half-peek basket, and the 

 demand is ahead of the supply. 



No. 2 shows the rhubarb that here in 

 Florida must be planted in the fall and 

 harvested before the summer rains. Just 

 back of it, next to the fence, are some fine 

 potatoes on new ground just reclaimed from 

 the wilderness. In fact, said " wilderness " 

 was just chopped up and put under gTound 

 to furnish humus. Potatoes seem to thrive 

 better on new ground the first year than 

 almost any other crop. On the upper right- 

 hand corner you get a glimpse of what we 

 call our " barn," with the shed on the south 



side, where we have poultry-netting shelves 

 on which to cure the dasheens. 



No. 3 shows our method of growing 

 " sprouted oats." The bed originally had 

 five rows of oats, such as you see. Just 

 before the picture was taken we pulled and 

 fed to the chickens every other row and 

 planted potatoes in their stead. The pota- 

 toes are not yet up ; but when they are, we 

 shall pull the remaining oats and cultivate 

 and hoe the potatoes. Our chickens have 

 learned to devour eagerly oats a foot high. 

 It is an easy matter to pull them, root and 

 all, out of the soft sandy soil. 



Everything has been described in picture 

 No. 4, except the great cassava roots. I 

 might say, however, that one of the dash- 

 eens in the little basket in the foreground 

 weighed over 4 lbs., and that the Red Bliss 

 Triumph potatoes shown are two of the 25- 

 ct. half-peck baskets set in a half-bushel 

 basket. Now for the cassava : 



Just about two years ago we set out 

 (4x4 feet) some sprouted cuttings in one 

 of the beds on our poorest sandy ground, 

 giving them a very little fertilizer. The 

 weeds were kept out until the cuttings were 



Burbank Giant rhubarb with beets and carrots on the right. 



