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DAIRY OF PLANTING 



April 29th. Rows 1 and 2 planted 

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 3, lettuce plants set six inches apart. 

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apart. Row 10, lettuce plants set twelve 

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May 1st. Rows 4, 5, 6, sown with radish. 

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May 2nd. Rows 13, 14, 15, sown with 

 carrots. 



May 3rd. Row 17, cabbage plants set 

 two feet apart, with two lettuce plants be- 

 tween each cabbage plant, and rows 16, 18, 



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The plan. Two crops of vegetables were gathered from this garden 



May, 1907 



each side of cabbage, set with lettuce plants, 

 eight inches apart. 



May 4th. Between lettuce in rows 7 and 

 10, placed onion sets three inches apart and 

 made rows 8 and 1 2 of onion sets three inches 

 apart. 



May 5th. Rows 19, 20, planted with peas. 



May 17th. Row 21, planted with cucum- 

 bers. 



THE SUCCESSION CROPS 



Juneioth. Rows 15, 17, 19, planted with 

 lettuce eight inches apart. 



Row 4, set to tomatoes two feet apart. 



June 27th. Row 16, set pepper plants nine 

 inches apart. 



July 7th. Rows 1, 2, 3, planted with 

 corn. 



July 15th. After peas had gone, put in 

 rows 12, 14, celery eight inches apart. 



Rows 11, 13, planted to stringless 

 beans. 



THE COST 



Fertilizer (20 lbs., home-mixed, in these propor- 

 tions: 2 potash, 1 nitrate of soda, 2 phosphate, 



1 dried blood) $ .30 



Fertilizer for early beans (5 lbs.) 07 



Hen manure for lettuce (^bushel) .25 



Stable manure (5 bushels) .75 



Lettuce plants, Black-seed Tennis Ball (320 



plants) 1.07 



Beans, Giant Stringless Green Pod (1 quart) . . .20 



Radish, Crimson Giant Forcing (3 packages) . . .15 



Beet, Edmund Blood (3 package?) ' .15 



Carrot, Danvers (3 packages) .15 



Onions sets (1 quart) 2C 



Pea, Nott's Excelsior (1 quart) .25 



Cabbage, All Seasons (12 plants) .25 



Cucumber, White Spine (1 package) .... .05 



Tomatoes, Nott's Early (13 plants) . .... .25 



Celery, Giant Pascal (74 plants) 74 



Sweet corn, Crosby's Early (1 gill) . . . .10 



Peppers, Bell (31 plants) .31 



Cost, exclusive of labor . . . . $ 5.29 



THE RESULTS 



Radishes, June 5th to 15th; 31 bunches, 8 in each, 



©$.05 $ 1.55 



Lettuce, June 10th to July 17th; 283 heads @ $.05 14.15 

 Onions, June 22d to 30th; 12 bunches, 8 in each, 



@$.io 1.20 



Peas, July 6th to 14th; x\ pecks ©$.30 ... .75 



Beet greens, July 13th; i bushel .25 



Beans, July 23d to 30th; i bushel, @ $.03 a 



quart .48 



Cucumbers, July 28th to September 4th, 211, @2 



for $.05 5-18 



Tomatoes, August 3d to September 14th; 393, weight 



128 pounds, 3 ounces, @ 01 J 1.95 



Beets, August 2d to September 31st; 14 bunches, 5 



in each, ©$.05 .70 



ii bushels @ $.40 .50 



Cabbage, August 1st to October 30th; 12 heads, 79 



pounds, 10 ounces @ $.01 .80 



Carrots, September 1st to November 10th; 10 



bunches, 5 in each, @ $.05 .50 



3 bushels 1. 00 



Corn, October 1st to 14th; 43 ears @ $.20 a dozen .72 



Peppers, October 25th to November 3d; 23 peppers . 1 5 

 Celery, November 10th to 29th; 71 heads, 3 in a 



bunch, @ $.10 2.30 



Gross Receipts, $32.18 



Actual cash outlay 5.29 



Net profit (excluding labor) $26.89 



If the labor put on this garden — seventy 

 hours at fifteen cents an hour — is deducted 

 it will leave a net profit of $16.39. 



Rhode Island. A. E. Wilkinson. 



