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Yield: 18 bunches 



Ready for use. . ..From June 27 to end of 

 October 



First planting much eaten by insects. 

 There were enough left, however, to fill all 

 needs until the second planting was ready. 

 Second planting was put in empty spaces, in 

 same row as first, and most of the yield came 

 from this planting. Seed of third planting 

 came up very irregularly. The seed used was 

 the "left over" of the previous year. 



EXPENSE ACCOUNT 



42 bean poles, at 3c $ 1 



50 lbs. general garden fertilizer 1 



100 lbs. bone fertilizer (general use) ... 2 



1 bag fertilizer 1 



3 days' use of horse, $2 day . 



igi days' labor, $2 a day 



7 loads manure at Si. 00 a load 



150 celery plants at 60c per hundred. 



Plants and seeds J 



39 



Total S75 



VEGETABLES 



USEH IN HOUSEHOLD AND LN STOCK: 



4 bunches asparagus at 25c $1 



11 pks. stringless and butter beans, 25c 2 

 Lima beans, 3 bu. 2 pks. 5 qts., per 



bu. S1.00 3 



43 bunches beets at 3c 1 



5 heads cabbage at 5c 



Carrots, 8 bunches at 2c, 1 bu. at Si. 00 



14 heads cauliflower at 8c 



125 heads celery, 5c 



336 ears corn, i-Jc 5 



26 cucumbers, at 2c 



11 egg plants, at 5c 



62 heads endive, at 4c 2 



14 bunches leek, at 5c 



62 heads lettuce (by actual count) at 5c 3 

 13 melons, at 5c 



1 5 okra, at 2c 



2 pks onions at 50c 1. 



Parsley (in daily use in household 153 



days at ic 1. 



Pears, 12 pks. 1 qt, at 40c per pk 4- 



61 peppers at 2c 1, 



Potatoes 6 bu, 4 qts. Si. 25, per bu. . . 7, 



16 pumpkins at roc 1. 



12 bunches salsify at 10c 1. 



£ pk. spinach at 20c a pk 



30 squash at 5c r. 



i£ bu. Swiss chard per bu 50c 



3 bu., 3 pks. 3 qts., Tomatoes, per bu. 



75c 2. 



iS bunches turnips at 5c 



Total: §50^ 



SOLD 



5' pks. beansat 40c $ 2 



1 bu. beans 1 



1 2 pks. beans at 25c 3 



£ pk. beans at 30c 



7 qts. beans, 



4 qts. beans 



5 bu. lima beans at Si-00 5 



4 pk. lima beans 



i pk. lima beans 



2 qts. lima beans at 5c 



1 qt. lima beans 



3 bunches beets 



67 bunches beets at 3c 2 



3 heads cabbage at 5c 



5 bunches carrots at 2c. .- 



2 bunches carrots 



12 bunches carrots 



S79 ears corn at ric 13 



1 2 ears corn at 2c 



4 bunches parsley (2 for 5c,) 



6 pks. peas at 40c 2 



10 squash at 5c ■ 



15 squash 



9 squash 



10 squash 



2 bushels tomatoes at 75c 1 



loi pks. tomatoes at 25c 2 



6 qts. tomatoes at 5c 



Total S37 



VEGETABLES FROM GARDEN CANNED, 

 SUMMER, 191 1 



3 2-qt. jars stringless beans, cut. 



I i-qt. jar stringless beans, cut. 



10 r-qt. jars stringless beans, whole. 

 10 i-qt. jars lima beans. 



II i-qt. jars beets, whole. 

 6 i-qt. jars peas. 



20 2-qt. jars tomatoes. 



6 i-qt. jars tomatoes (see note). 



Note: These tomatoes are put, uncooked, 

 into the jars, and are kept as whole as far as 

 is consistent with filling the jars. 



FRUIT 



USED LN HOUSEHOLD AND IN STOCK 



iS apples at 2c each $ 



5 qts. cherries at 5c 



13 qts. currants at i2ic 



4 qts. gooseberries at 10c 



35 lbs. grapes at 5c 



50 pears at 2c 



S9 qts. peaches at 10c I. 



-J pk. quince at 50c a peck .25 



43 Pts. raspberries at i2§c 5.38 



12 bunches rhubarb at 5c .60 



45 qts. strawberries at 10c 



Total f 



1 qt. cherries at 10c $ 



4a qts. currants at 12^-c 



3 qts. gooseberries at 10c 



18 qts. peaches, i2§c 



10 qts. peaches (selected) at 20c 



5 pts. raspberries at Sc 



31 qts. raspberries at 15c 4.65 



120 qts. strawberries at 10c 12.00 



13 qts. strawberries at 123c 1.63 



2S-3- qts. strawberries (selected) at 15c. 



Total "$28.18 



PICKLES HADE AUTUMN OF 1911 



Green Tomato Pickle 8 qts., 1 pt. 



Pepper Hash 2 qts.. 1 pt. 



Chow-Chow 1 qt., 1 pt- 



PRESERVED FRUIT FROM HOME 

 GARDEN, SUnriER, 1911 



Cherry, Montmor- 

 ency 1 2-qt. jar (in Maras- 

 chino); 1 i-qt jar (in 

 syrup); 1 i-pt. jar (in 

 syrup). 

 Currant, Fay Pro- 

 lific 13 5-pt. glasses; 2 J-pt. 



jars (red); 1 i-pt. jar 

 (white). 

 Ear-le-Duc Seeds removed, and en- 

 tirely cooked in sun. 

 Gooseberry, Colum- 

 bus 4 i-pt. jars. 



Grapes. Concord 12 i-pt. glasses (spiced). 



Peach, Rivers 10 i-qt. jars; 12 i-pt. 



jars. 

 Peach, Crawford's 



Late 2 i-qt. jars; 5 i-pt. jars; 



Quince, Orange 3 pt. jars; 5 7- pt. glasses 



jelly; 1 i-pt. glass jelly. 

 Raspberry. Cuth- 

 bert and Colum- 

 bian 1 i-qt jar; 10 i-pt jars. 



Strawberry 1 i-qt. jar; 12 f-pt. 



glasses; 4 i-pt. glasses. 

 Strawberries sun-cooked. 



SUMMARIZED ACCOUNT 



Income S145 91 



Expenditures 75 .36 



Balance $ 70.55 



NOTE: Throughout the report, five vege- 

 tables are counted as a bunch, except asparagus 

 and rhubarb, where a larger amount is allowed, 

 keeping as near as possible to the amount 

 commercially used. 



Pitch Pine for Poor Soils— By wilhelm Miller, ■ 



A PICTURESQUE EVERGREEN TREE WHICH GROWS SO RAPIDLY THAT YOU 

 CAN SOW THE SEEDS AND GROW YOUR OWN WINDBREAKS AND SCREENS 



DO YOU remember how prejudiced 

 every one was against red cedar 

 ten years ago, while now you see 

 it planted everywhere, especially 

 in the formal gardens of the wealthy? 

 It is possible that the next fashionable 

 tree will be one that is at present heartily 

 despised, viz., the pitch pine (Piuus 

 rigida), I confess that only three years 

 ago I could see no beauty in hard pines. 

 I thought them the ugliest, scrawniest 

 old things, full of dead-looking cones that 

 hung on for years, utterly messy and worth- 

 less. This was because I had seen them 

 only in the "desert" of Long Island 

 where they have been ruined by annual 

 fires. And even when Professor Sargent 

 and Miss Rogers told me that the pitch 

 pine was extremely valuable for planting I 

 was too shocked to reply, because I thought 

 much learning had made them mad. 



The first great awakening came when I 

 saw the grand, old specimen at Hyde Park, 

 N. Y., the home of Frederick W. Vander- 

 bilt. Later I saw that pitch pine can be 

 symmetrical enough for a lawn specimen 

 if you give it room and do not crowd it to 

 death. It certainly is symmetrical when 

 young and it can be kept low and bushy by 

 trimming in summer. However, I do not 

 advocate pitch pine for lawns because we 

 have so many better trees that will hold 

 their symmetry longer, especially white 

 and red pine. 



The second great awakening came when 

 my friends showed me that pitch pine will 

 often solve more problems at less cost than 

 any other tree, with the possible exception 

 of red cedar. For the most artistic ma- 

 terial is always the cheapest thing that is 

 permanent. The pitch pine is generally 

 cheaper even than the Scotch and Austrian 

 pines and Norway spruce, and it may out- 

 live them. 



What is pitch pine like? It is an ever- 

 green tree, growing fifty, or rarely eighty 

 feet high, with a short trunk, and thick 

 round top which often becomes irregular in 

 age, and it has yellowish green foliage, the 

 needles being three to five mches long, and 

 three needles in a cluster. The extraor- 

 dinary usefulness of the tree is due to its 

 genius for quick growth on poor soils, and 

 its sunny, cheerful foliage. The essential 

 beauty of it is its picturesqueness, i. e., its 

 irregularity in old age, the very opposite of 

 symmetry. This will be made clear by its 

 uses. 



1. To shelter your house from the wind, 

 plant pitch pines. On the prairies, in the 

 mountains, by the seashore, in the suburbs 

 this is the great problem that affects every- 

 one. In Illinois pitch pines are grown by 

 the tens of thousands and the little seed- 

 lings a foot or so high are planted success- 

 fully on the prairies and in central southern 

 Nebraska. 



2. To hide ugliness, plant pitch pines. 



At present the cheapest way to screen 

 barns, tanks, outbuildings, factories, etc., 

 without delay is to move a lot of big cedars. 

 But pitch pines are eventually more 

 effective because wider. Cover that ugly 

 sand pit that spoils your view by planting 

 it with little pitch pines a foot high ! You 

 can buy ioo of them at five cents a piece! 

 Pitch pines will hide more ugliness the year 

 round in less time and at less cost than any 

 other tree worth having that you can raise 

 from seed. 



3. To get privacy plant pitch pines at 

 your boundaries. Plant other trees, too, 

 and tall shrubs. But without evergreens 

 your place will look poor and thin. What 

 cheaper evergreen can you use on the 

 boundaries of a great estate? You can buy 

 1,000 pitch pines 3 ft. high for $180, whereas 

 Scotch pines would cost you $400, white 

 pine, $500, and Austrian nearly $1,000. 



4. To hold steep banks, plant pitch 

 pines because they are cheaper than sod. 

 They will grow on banks too steep for sod 

 and save you the cost of grading back so 

 that grass will grow. Also they will save 

 you the expense of carting good soil for 

 grass. And they hold better because their 

 roots go deeper. 



5. At the seashore, plant pitch pines. 

 To save land from the sea you must have a 

 sea wall. Then plant locust and ailanthus 

 and willow and pitch pine. The three first 

 will make suckers and hold bluffs. No 



