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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1913 



Conducted by Ellen Eddy Shaw 



Some Big Money Results 



JANUARY is a month when people 

 •J take account of stock, plan for the 

 year and make solemn promises. In gar- 

 den work it is well, also, to do all these 

 things. Take account of stock by seeing if 

 your last year's garden paid; plan for the 

 year by starting right off to make ready for 

 your spring outdoor work; and solemnly 

 promise to make your garden better, to 

 keep a strict account of it in dollars and 

 cents, and to take pictures of your work 

 which will show something definite. 



The following reports of work show 

 actual results both in yield and in money: 



Thirty-Five Dollars From 

 Vegetables 



"My garden was forty feet square. I 

 fertilized it with stable and hen manure, 

 turned it in well and then made the drills. 



The first seeds, early peas, I planted 

 about the middle of April. Fmishing 

 with them I planted five rows of beets. 

 After this was completed, I planted three 

 rows of bush beans. Then came the let- 

 tuce, two rows of Salamander and about 

 five or six small rows of Prizehead. After 

 that I set out twelve hills of pole beans, 

 nicely equipped with ten foot bamboo poles. 

 I set out from my hotbed thirty-eight nice 

 tomato plants. My next step was to 

 plant about twenty hills of sweet corn, five 

 or six hills of cucumbers, two rows of tur- 

 nips, one row of parsley, and two rows of 

 carrots. I followed this planting with four 

 hills of cantaloupes and ten hills of squash. 

 I put out, also, two rows of onion sets. This 

 is the general layout of my home garden. 



The realization from these labors was 

 gratifying. To begin with I realized from 

 my beet crop $2. The next thing to 

 bring profit was my lettuce; I sold $4. 

 worth and also kept our own home table 

 fully supplied all this season. The profits 

 on the next crop (beans) netted me $2, 

 also a full supply for the table most of the 



season. My crop of kale was of a very fine 

 looking grade. I realized $1 from it. I 

 have had a very successful crop of carrots. 

 I have already pulled and sold $2 worth 

 and will realize on the remainder, after 

 setting aside all the family requires, about 

 $1.50 more. I have a very pretty, healthy 

 and strong looking crop of parsley. I have 

 sold only thus far in the neighborhood of 

 $2 worth and I am certain I will realize on 

 the balance at least $2 more. The next 

 crop is my tomato crop, which consists of 

 thirty-eight plants. I have kept the family 

 supplied all the season with the finest 

 specimens of Dwarf Champion and Stone 

 tomatoes. I have already sold from these 

 vines over four bushels of ripened tomatoes. 

 I have realized at the rate of $1.50 per 

 bushel, which yields me $6 already. 



The next crop is my sweet corn. Out 

 of the number of hills I have planted the 

 profit is about $1. On my cucumber vines 

 I realized $1.75 besides seed. The next 

 crop that I wish to speak of is my canta- 

 loupes. For my limited space I consider my 

 yield equal to $6. The summer turnip 

 crop grew very successfully. I did not sell 

 any of this crop, but I calculate from what 

 the family used, the profit to be about $2. 

 I have about twenty good sound pumpkins. 

 My final crop of vegetables is my pole beans 

 and out of these we have had a generous 

 supply for the table. So my small vegetable 

 garden has been worth about $35 to me. 



Providence, R. I. H. O'Connell. 



Over Five Dollars In Strawberries 



" In my strawberry bed which I told you 

 that I planted last spring, I had 52 quarts 

 of berries. The berries were certainly 

 delicious and we had all we could do to pick 

 and eat them. The patch is 25x5 ft. 

 Figuring on an average of 14 cents per quart, 

 I had $7.28 for those berries. I spent but 

 $2 on the bed. Thus I had a profit of 



$5.28 for only one crop. I hope for as good 

 results next year. 

 Detroit, Mich. Robert L. Plues. 



Big Returns From A Solanum 



"I want to tell you what I have accom- 

 plished with one Jerusalem cherry (Sol- 

 anum) . I had given to me one poor sickly 

 plant with only one cherry on it. I decided 

 to nurse it and save the cherry and raise 

 plants of my own and not depend on 

 others. When the cherry was ripe I picked 

 it and laid it away. The plant I cut back 

 and put in the basement until spring. 



This summer it grew to be a large bush 

 covered with red berries. The one cherry 

 I saved I planted in a small box which I 

 placed in my hot sash the first of March: 

 when the plants were large enough I trans- 

 planted them into my garden. 



I found I had fifty plants from my one 

 cherry and I raised every one of them. I had 

 them in pots, fine large plants full of green 

 and yellow berries. I sold seven at 25 cents 

 apiece. I took orders for twelve more and 

 expect to sell them all. So I have already 

 made $4.75. The total profit will be $12.50. " 



Cleveland, O. Mabel J. Mtjsser. 



A Big Corn Yield 



"I joined the corn club at school. The 

 agricultural college gave me the seed corn 

 and a 'Boy's and Girl's Potato and Corn 

 Primer. ' The soil I selected for my work 

 was a moist, dark loam on a western slope. 

 The corn was planted May 27. I planted 

 eighty hills three feet apart, five kernels in a 

 hill and sowed thirty pounds of corn fer- 

 tilizer in the drill. The corn was culti- 

 vated four times and hoed by hand once. 

 The corn was cut and shocked the last of 

 September. The yield was three and one 

 half bushels of good corn." 



Marlboro, Mass. E. W. Stratton. 



A boy's back yard garden at Providence. R. I., that was a financial success. 



realized on a 40 ft. square 



Thirty-five dollars 



