THE 90c 



GARDEN YARD 



Be sure in picking, to have three baskets on a 

 board, and have the picker assort the berries 

 as picked. Usually, this will about double the 

 price that you can get. A good yield is 6000 

 quarts per acre, but they have been known to 

 yield all the way from 21,000 to 35,000 quarts 

 per acre. (See " A Little Land and a Living," 

 pp. 141-143.) 



The good price is for the garden product 

 that is better than its kind, and specializing on 

 one thing helps to make you grow the best of 

 that thing. You naturally try to find out all 

 you can about it, and if there is an improved 

 method, or somebody has grown a larger crop 

 than you, you are going to know how he did it. 

 Grow your family vegetables on a portion of your 

 plot, but if there is room at all, save the rest for 

 some specialty. 



If you cannot grow crops at all, perhaps you 

 can specialize on raising animals. You have a 

 considerable variety to choose from, because, 

 as I have shown in " A Little Land and a Liv- 

 ing," and also in "Three Acres and Liberty," 

 there is a market for everything, from bees and 

 poultry to fish and silver foxes. (The foxes were 

 sneered at, first off, but the Department of Ag- 

 riculture has just published a bulletin on breed- 

 ing foxes.) 



