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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Every one of these pretty children of Mrs. A. W. Hosmer 

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 Food is happy, healthy and well and grows safely up into 

 rugged, beautiful childhood? 



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Would you like to see a lot of pictures of pretty 

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Mellin's Food is the ONLY Infants' Food, which received the GRAND PRIZE, the highest 

 award of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Higher than a gold medal. 



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A Quarter-Acre Pickle Garden 



Photographs by Pauline Sperry 



THERE were two of us who had finished 

 college, and before settling down to 

 the usual occupation for college women, we 

 were anxious to prove our ability to earn 

 something with our hands as well as with 

 our heads. 



We determined to have a pickle garden. 

 In a college town there was sure to be a 

 demand for all we could supply. We kept 

 our outlay for labor down to $1.75: $1 for 

 plowing, 50 cents for harrowing, 25 cents to 

 a boy for delivering in the height of the 

 tomato season. 



Early in the spring we secured the use of 

 a quarter-acre lot for furnishing the owner's 

 table with cucumbers. Our lot was plowed 

 and harrowed, and we put in a hundred 

 hills of cucumbers, with a little bone dust 

 in each hill, sowed onion and cabbage seed, 

 and by the last of May set out some sixty 

 thrifty tomato plants which had been grown 

 in boxes in the house. On June 4th we 

 began setting out cabbages, and continued 

 to do so until we had some two hundred 

 hardy heads. 



Through June we hoed and weeded dili- 

 gently, and as our cucumbers appeared we 

 fought the striped bug. Wood soot was 

 plentifully sprinkled on the growing vines. 



Our cucumbers blossomed on July 5th. 

 On the 14th I made my last round with the 



338. Wood soot from the house furnace Kept the 

 striped bug within bounds 



soot-pan, and found but two bugs for my 

 pains. On the 20th we had our first cucum- 

 bers for the table. On the 25th, after con- 

 tinued dry weather, I carried water to the 

 twenty hills nearest the source of supply. 



From July 20th to September 2 2d, when 

 the frost caught the vines, we were kept 

 busy picking "cukes," filling orders, and 

 pickling what we could not immediately 

 dispose of. Our largest picking for one day 

 was 385. The total for the two months was 



4,445- 



Careful records of outlay and income, 

 hours of labor, daily count of cucumbers, 

 and special dates of interest for reference 



