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of quick-growing produce has been taken off, stir up the 

 land with disk or cultivator, and replant. Nearly all suc- 

 cessful gardeners make their land produce two crops of 

 vegetables in a season. On a tract of two acres, a plan 

 something like the following should be adopted : 



Plant one acre to potatoes, half an acre to lettuce, rad- 

 ishes, beets and carrots, and half an acre to onions. For 

 the second part of the season, put out a quarter of an 

 acre of celery, a quarter of an acre of beets, an acre of 

 late cabbage and half an acre of onions. If the young 

 farmers find the season going too fast for them, they 

 should not attempt two crops that year, but get ready to 

 follow the programme outlined for the next summer. 



All of the products named return large profits. Cab- 

 bage ought to pay at the rate of $200 an acre: celery, 

 $400; onions, $250; beets and carrots, $100; potatoes, 

 $150. There is no exaggeration in the figures given. Any 

 industrious youth can gain a fine income in this way. 

 The only capital required is for seed, rent of land and 

 such team work as must be done. I will say frankly that 

 there will be mistakes and accidents which will upset some 

 of the calculations, but these will be few after the first 

 season. Hence I advise taking the land for two or more 

 years. 



A farmer reports that in a single season seventeen acres 

 of pickles and thirty-one acres of onions and onion sets 

 cashed in far more than the market value of the expensive 

 land on which they grew. Last year he broke the record 

 with $4,600 from ten acres of onions. For five years he 

 has averaged $190 an acre from pickles. 



