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careful management, yield all the veget ables desired 

 between June and October, besides providing an abundance 

 of root crops for winter use. 



The first thing to do is to draw a plan to a scale, dividing 

 the garden into say, four sections, each equalling twenty- 

 five to fifty feet. In the properly balanced garden one 

 section will, perhaps, be devoted to potatoes. Under 

 favorable circumstances, the ten fifty-foot rows should 

 yield from eight to ten bushels of potatoes. Another 

 section should be devoted to root crops of a long growing 

 season, such as long beets, parsnips, salsify, witloof 

 chicory, etc. The third section should be set aside for 

 quickly maturing extra early spring crops, such as 

 radishes, lettuce, green onions, etc., while section number 

 four would serve for crops requiring more space and a 

 long season, like peas, Swiss chard, etc. 



Now, let us take the sections one by one, to work out a 

 practical programme. Section No. i, planted to potatoes, 

 will be busy all season producing that crop unless a very 

 early maturing sort is chosen. In that case the ground 



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