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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1918 



Gardening 

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Making a Little Go a Long Way 



f HAVE just read a book on gardening by 

 a noted authority — a good book, too — 

 in which a chapter is devoted to the immortal 

 subject of fertilizers. 



Unhappily this chapter is near the front of 

 the book and to the hard-pressed suburbanite 

 who fondly hopes that his garden will be a 

 help in his struggle against the high cost of 

 living, this is the message — manure, yes, the 

 best of fertilizers, apply 60 to 100 cartloads to 

 the acre! If the suburbanite's heart sinks 

 it is no wonder when manure fetches two 

 dollars and a quarter a load! [Even more 

 nowadays. — Editor.] 



The authority continues that if less manure 

 is used 500 to 1,500 pounds, according to 

 the grade, of commercial fertilizer should be 

 used to supplement the more modest spread 

 of manure. For commercial fertilizer we 

 pay three dollars and a half to four dollars a 

 hundred pounds! If the suburbanite, who 

 notes in his evening paper (while he hangs to 

 a swaying strap in the home-bound trolley) 

 the rise in the cost of every thing from shoes to 

 rice, recovers from this last shock it is a marvel. 



My garden happens most conveniently to 

 be just one acre in size — and (writing under 

 a pseudonym my shame is less) upon this 

 acre each spring I broadcast two precious 

 loads of manure, again in the fall two loads! 

 I buy one hundred pound sack of the best 

 commercial fertilizer and use it sparingly — 

 as one would red pepper! These two with a 

 modest compost heap, wood ashes from the 

 house, rotation of crops and an endeavor to 

 keep a fifth or sixth of the garden in clover 

 and rye for plowing under — constitute my 

 fertilizers. 



Enough? Certainly not. I have fallen so 

 low as to try to get an extra amount by 

 begging my family to remember my birth- 

 day (coming so opportunely in April) by 

 giving me a load of manure. They never 

 have and the garden struggles along — I can 

 afford to feed it not one cent more. 



My soil is not particularly good — one of 

 my spring pastimes is picking up stones 

 (boulders they sometimes seem) and carrying 

 them off by the wheelbarrowful. Neverthe- 

 less, we have vegetables enough for the whole 

 year round, including potatoes, also small 

 fruits for fresh and canned use. I have even 

 taken a prize for tomatoes at a local show. 

 That was my one splurge for my vegetables 

 are not unusually big or fine — just ordinary 

 nice ones. My radishes and turnips (two 

 vegetables which we fortunately detest) 

 are, I must admit, poor. 



When I figure up my #13.50 spent upon 

 fertilizers against a low estimate of #135.00 

 of the book's authority, I am very much 

 pleased with myself, my vegetables and my 

 garden and most glad that I read the dis- 

 couraging authority after I had learned by 

 experience how much can be done with a 

 very little fertilizer, and not before. 



Minnesota A. H. M. 



[The books always deal in maxima doses, 

 the ultimates, but much good gardening is 

 done with less. Brains and intelligence 

 count for much. — Editor.] 



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