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THE CxARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 19 



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Factory 



Solves 



the Help 



Problem 



—Replaces 



the Horse 



Means Suburban 

 Independence 



It Cultivates 



One wide row — one or three narrow rows — at one time. It 

 enables one man to do the work of two or thiee under old 

 methods. 



It Plows and Harrows 



— does more than a horse because it works faster 



and never gets tired. Does all the work ordinarily 



done with 



one horse 



or by 



hand. 



It's a Portable 4 h, p. Stationary Engine 



Runs a washing machine, 

 churn, pump, grinder, etc., 

 trots from job to job under its 

 own power, proves useful the 

 year round. *■ Eats only 

 when it 

 works." 



It makes the suburbanite independent of help and power 

 difficulties. 



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As Others See It 



Until the next garden season is actively under 

 way, it is never too late to recall worthy achieve- 

 ments of the growing season just passed. One of 

 these was the home garden campaign in Tennes- 

 see, where in twenty-four cities there were 

 598,550 gardens totalling 4,192 acres. The city 

 of Memphis accounted for 29,912 of these gardens 

 and 1,028 of the acres: Knoxville had 10,000 

 gardens, Nashville 8,000, and Chattanooga 

 5,000. It was this tremendous increase over 

 results of past years, together with the greater 

 care that these gardens received and their nat- 

 urally increased productivity that helped to 

 make the Tennessee cities so nearly self-support- 

 ing, so far as vegetables were concerned, during 

 the dark days of war. 



Currants and White-pine Blister Rust. — 

 Another gratifying discovery in the field of plant 

 pathology is that the rust which has appeared 

 on currants in Colorado and other Far Western 

 states is not, as was feared, the White-pine blister 

 rust, but a relatively harmless form. This fact 

 supplies the final testimony needed to prove the 

 entire Far West and all the Southern states free 

 of the serious true blister rust. Indeed, through- 

 out all the states west of the Mississippi River 

 two years of organized search have found the 

 disease only in fifty-two locations in Iowa, 

 Minnesota, and South Dakota. East, of the 

 Mississippi the disease is generally distributed 

 beyond hope of general eradication in New Eng- 

 land and eastern New York, where it is being 

 controlled locally by the destruction of the al- 

 ternate host. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 it is under control, having been eradicated in 

 eight separate places. In the other North At- 

 lantic and Central states it has been found in 

 nineteen localities during the last six years. 

 But taking all the central states as a group (in- 

 cluding the three mentioned above) it has been 

 eradicated from sixty-eight out of the seventy- 

 one localities, which indicates with considerable 

 certainty that the disease can and will be con- 

 fined to the eastern border of the country, if 

 not for ever, at least for many years to come. 



Hats Off to the Garden Clubs.— One of the 

 larger results of garden-club work — the sort 

 of result that puts a round peg in a round hole 

 and benefits all concerned — is illustrated by the 

 experience during the last four years of a young 

 Italian boy in a Massachusetts manufacturing 

 district. It was while he was in the eighth grade 

 that his father told him that he could no longer 

 go to school but must set about earning money in 

 a nearby factory. However, as a member of a 

 local garden club he had been getting pretty good 

 results and, claiming that he could make more 

 money raising potatoes outside of school hours 

 than by giving full time to factory work, he per- 

 suaded his father to let him try that method of 

 meeting his expenses. He was so successful that 

 the next fall he was allowed to enter the ninth 

 grade and continue his studies. The following 

 spring the school superintendent gare him a 

 bigger piece of land and in order to cultivate it 

 he enlisted the help of ten schoolmates to whom 

 he paid regular wages and gave garden plots of 

 their own as well. By another fall he decided 

 that he could make enough by gardening to pay 

 his way through high school and, later, an agri- 

 cultural college. How justified he was in this 

 expectation is suggested by the fact that he is 

 now a junior in high school and has a good-sized 

 hot house under lease where he raises cabbage, 

 cauliflower and tomato plants; he also owns an 

 auto truck with which he markets his produce 

 in summer; he has a bank account in his own 



(Continued on page 88) 



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