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GARDEN YARD 



creases the earliness of ripening, and the size 

 and quality of the fruit. Besides, the plants 

 may be grown so much closer that the loss in 

 quantity is not so great as would at first appear. 



Henry Jeroloman of New Jersey, known all 

 over the country as the " Strawberry King," has 

 a tomato-planting trick that is worth noting. 

 Mr. Jeroloman, by the way, raises about $5,000 

 worth from his eight acres annually, and he 

 plants tomatoes at the foot of his grape-trellis 

 posts and trains them to climb up the posts and 

 along the trellis. And right here is where the 

 real trick comes in: by training the tomatoes 

 to climb up instead of sprawling all over the 

 ground, he is able to plant his low-growing crops, 

 like beets or turnips, close up to the vines and 

 lose no space. That is one of the reasons why 

 his eight acres bring in more than the average 

 farm of 100 acres. Your profit will depend 

 upon similar devices for " working " the soil. 



The best rack for supporting unpruned vines, 

 is a cheap, rough and simple affair, constructed 

 by the grower himself as follows: — Run a row 

 of stakes on either side of your tomato bed and 

 nail a light board to each row about a foot from 

 the ground, so that the distance between the 

 two rows will be about three feet. Across this 

 lay narrow slats, loosely. The plants lop on 



