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that are being instituted in many cities, and get some 

 one who is directly interested in one of them to 

 tell you whether they are welcomed or not. Nature 

 Study is one of the biggest advances in modern 

 educational methods. You can provide material 

 for this work for your own children, and gain at the 

 same time all the financial benefits that I have 

 spoken of on other pages. Wouldn't you like to 

 talk to the 14-year old boy who cleared nearly 

 $50 from half an acre .'' At any rate you can hear 

 his story and I'd not be surprised if you were to 

 profit by it. 



A fourteen-year-old-boy's garden that 



PRODUCED $70 



"My garden is half an acre, sloping slightly to 

 the south, and I do all the work myself except 

 plowing and hauling the manure. The soil is a 

 rich, sandy loam. After sending my order to the 

 seedsman I had manure hauled and spread all over 

 the garden to be plowed under. On April 5 the 

 garden was plowed, harrowed, and the potato rows 

 marked out. I then planted my peas, beets, early 

 potatoes, spinach, onion sets and onion seed. I 

 worked in the garden every day after school and 

 soon had it looking tip-top. About the first of 

 May I planted all the other vegetables that could 

 not be planted early, such as corn, beans, late 

 potatoes, summer squash, early tomato plants, 

 cabbage plants, carrots and pumpkins. I had the 

 asparagus and rhubarb to supply early vegetables. 

 I picked my first spinach on May 12 and my first 



