THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 235 
Prepare another planting table containing spaces for 
the dates on which you planted, the names of the vege- 
tables, the varieties, the dates of harvest, and notes that 
will help you in next year’s work. Fill out the table 
as the work progresses during the summer. Your table 
should include the dates when plants were set out, also 
when succession crops are sown. 
PLAN OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN 
An area forty by sixty-four feet may be divided into 
twenty plots, each four feet by eleven feet, that may be 
used as individual gardens. It also contains space for 
one large plot that may be used for experimental pur- 
poses. Each of the small plots contains a thousandth 
part of an acre, with a small allowance for waste. By 
making the plots a convenient fractional part of an 
acre, the rate per acre at which the crops are produced, 
as well as the quantity of fertilizer needed for each plot 
when the amount per acre is given, may be calculated 
easily. If fertilizer is to be applied at the rate of one 
ton per acre, the amount for each plot is found by divid- 
ing two thousand by one thousand. The rate of crop 
production may be obtained in the same way. 
The regular path is two feet wide; it contains half 
the land in the plot. When the succession crop is planted, 
the path should be spaded up. No paths are needed for 
the later crops, that stand from two to three feet apart, 
or for cover crops. 
