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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1918 



at of course; but this seemed altogether 

 too vague, too much the old hit-or-miss 

 way. There must be something more definite 

 than this, or it would not deserve to be 

 called scientific management. 



Obviously it must be brought down to the 

 individual, in order to be exact enough to 

 meet this test, and to form a basis of opera- 

 tions. How many potatoes will an individual 

 eat, during the year? How many beets? 

 And carrots? And parsnips? — and so on. 

 Sounds almost absurd, at first, does it not? 

 But actually it is simply a problem in ration- 

 ing which, when solved, is to be coupled up 

 to the gardening planning problem, and there 

 you are! 



So thus it was all planned, root crops and 

 top crops, with pages of figures set down be- 

 fore quantities were finally determined. 



It is yet too soon to say, with certainty, 

 whether the potatoes which the garden in 

 question yielded will suffice for the family of 

 four who make up the "trial squad;" probably 

 they will not, quite. The yield was fair, 

 though not as good as it might have been if 

 the soil had not been over-enriched with 

 stable manure, applied with mistaken zeal 

 during the summer previous. Many of the 

 plants ran largely to top, under the stimulus 

 of it. A total of about 8 bushels of excellent 

 quality, promises to carry until April first or 

 thereabouts. This verifies the estimate of 

 half a pound per person daily; otherwise, an 

 average of two good sized potatoes. 



' 1 ^HE analysis at length developed that a 

 *- row of beets 24 feet long — the length 

 of the side rows in this garden was 24 feet, 

 from which we must make an allowance of 

 perhaps 18 to 24 inches, for waste at the 

 ends — would yield 48 roots, less this waste, 

 which we may say reduces the number to 45. 

 Similarly, carrots, turnips and parsnips 

 would yield 45 roots per row; salsify, thinned 

 to 4 inches apart in the row, half as many 

 more, or a<bout 65 roots; onions thinned to 

 2 inches apart, about 135 to the row; cabbages 

 planted 18 inches apart — as early plants may 

 be — just 15 heads, which is an ample number 

 for summer, unless one is inordinately fond 

 of cabbage. 



A bunch of beets in market is ordinarily 

 four or five; hence, a single row gave 10 

 bunches; otherwise, five servings. Each 

 row of the other root vegetables was ap- 

 portioned in the same way, excepting the 

 rutabagas and the salsify. Of the former, 

 a pair are enough to serve at a meal; and of 

 the latter, a bunch of perhaps ten or a dozen 

 is needed. 



It would take too much space to elaborate 

 upon the figures by which the supply of each 

 vegetable was determined; so the result in 

 tabulated form alone is given. This, as will 

 be seen, is based upon a division of the 

 year into producing months and non-producing 

 months. Of the former, there are approxi- 

 mately 45 — more accurately perhaps, there 

 are 18 weeks during which each day's supply 

 may be taken fresh from the garden. This 

 leaves 34 weeks to be provided for, either 

 with the surplus, canned, dried or in some 

 way preserved, or with the strictly winter 

 vegetables — the root crops, cabbage and 

 winter squash. 



T^HE 34 weeks or 238 days of winter 



•*• have eight strictly winter vegetables 



and six canned or preserved to be divided 



between them; that is, there must be enough 



of the fourteen to serve 17 times each, or 



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