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ceeded. Moreover, in the following pages you 

 will find a detailed account of the work that should 

 be done every month in the year, where to do it, 

 how to do it, and what to do it with. We have 

 been gathering information and data from complete 

 accounts, also discovering labor-and-time-saving 

 methods, with this book in mind. If you keep 

 these directions before you, you will be able to 

 see at a glance just what is to be done, and the 

 quickest and best way to do it. And you can 

 dig money out of your backyard! 



INTENSIVE VS. EXTENSIVE CULTURE 



There is, in the records of gardening experiences, 

 to which I refer, not only optimistic reference to 

 success under seeming difficulties, but also the 

 foundation of actual sound agricultural and eco- 

 nomic principles. Intensive cultivation has been 

 heralded as the coming salvation of the agriculture 

 of the crowded East. There is not a little to be 

 said in its favor. 



Intensive cultivation is the practice of working 

 all the land all the time; making every inch play 

 its part, and letting no space remain uncropped. 

 This is accomplished by: (a) succession planting, 

 (b) companion planting, (c) training, and (d) the 

 growth of green manure crops when nothing else 

 can be cultivated. It is the logical means of mak- 

 ing the land permanently fertile, which in one form 

 or another is practiced on every successful farm of 

 whatever size. 



