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fell, thus cutting off the crop still more. The berries 

 were small and ill-shaped. The following is the result. 

 The matted row system was used ; the rows were 4 feet 

 apart, and the plants 12 inches apart in the rows. At 

 this rate 10,000 plants per acre are used. The cost of 

 cultivation was $25 per acre, which is about the average 

 cost. 



900 Parry 21 quarts. 



1200 Sharpless 77 



900 American i54 



Total 252 " 



Cr. 



252 qts. berries, @ iic $27 72 



Dr. 



Cultivation and setting $7 '5° 



Picking 252 qts,, @ 2C 5 °4 



Interest on land— i year i 35 



Marketing 252 qts., @ ic 2 52 



Total J16 41 



Profit Sii 31 



Rate of piofit per acre $37 70 



The reader must bear in mind that ttiis crop occupied 

 the land for the best part of two years, which, if taken 

 into account, reduces the profit still more. 



A Crop that Paid Better. — The following is my ex- 

 perience with a piece of sandy loam of \ of an acre, plant- 

 ed with sweet corn and squash. The first week in 

 May, i8go, I applied seven loads of stable manure on 

 sod and plowed it under. After harrowing, I marked 

 out the piece into rectangles two and one-half by three 

 feet, on May 12, and planted it with white Cory corn and 

 squash. I took a one-horse load of well-rotted manure 

 and dropped a good fork-full in every sixth hill of every 

 alternate row, in this manner :* 



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I put four kernels of the corn in each of the remaining 

 hills, and then dropped a handful of hen manure and 

 wood ashes, one part of the former to two of the latter, 

 directly on the corn, covering the whole with about two 

 inches of soil. I then covered those hills intended for 

 squash about four inches deep, and planted a part with 

 Early Prolific Marrow and the balance with Hubbard 

 and Butman. I had a hard time with beetles on the 

 squash vines, but managed to save three-quarters of the 

 hills. The piece was hoed twice by hand and twice with 

 a horse-hoe, and the corn finally hilled. The corn, I 

 consider, was a fair average crop, but the squashes were 

 below the average. August 5 the first corn was picked 

 and August 13 the stalks cut. The result was as follows : 



Cr. 



1,275 s^rs corn $13 50 



165 squashes 17 64 



Total $31 14 



Dr. 



7 loads manure $6 00 



1 one-horse load rotted manure 75 



2 hbls. hen manure and ashes i 00 



Seed 75 



Cultivation, etc 400 



Interest on land i oo 



Total J13 50 



Profit $17 64 



Rate of profit per acre $105 84 



The corn and squashes were marketed with other pro- 

 duce, and the cost of marketing cannot be estimated 

 properly. 



This last crop was about right in its profit yielding, 

 though by no means as good as it might have been. 

 New York. John Jeannin, Jr. 



[ Truckers who will keep accurate accounts, like Mr. 

 Jeannin's, with their operations, cannot fail to obtain 

 some most valuable data. Too often there is wonder as 

 to why the general results are not sufficiently profitable, 

 and no knowledge as to where the leak is. — Ed.] 



NOTES FROM A WOMAN'S GARDEN— JUNE. 



" It is the month of June, 



The month of leaves and roses, 

 When pleasant sights salute the eyes. 

 And pleasant scents the noses." 



— N. P. WiM-is. 



AS WE like to have our beloved garden look 

 pretty, as well as be useful and interesting, 

 all the overflow from the regular flower 

 garden finds a place here. Old Levi says 

 "it makes awful hard hoein'." Very true, 

 no doubt, but the bright colors of Ihe flowers do add 

 so much to the beauty of the garden. 



In front of a long, rather low grape vine trellis is a row 

 of stately foxgloves, whose spikes of purple and white 

 bells look lovely indeed against the deep green of the 

 grape leaves. Later, when the blossoms fade and wither. 



the rapid growth of the grape vine will hide them. Here 

 is a place where no vegetable will grow well ; but holly- 

 hocks, in variety, bloom year after year. There is a great 

 clump of the old-fashioned striped grass, which the cap- 

 tain says is "a regular nuisance, and will run over the 

 whole garden "; but by having it carefully cut around 

 each year, the bunch never gets much larger, and it pre- 

 sents really quite a striking appearance when in full 

 bloom. 



In the deepest shade of the pear trees, close to a stone 

 wall, the graceful mountain fringe grows luxuriantly, 

 often climbing to the very top of a tree. The foliage is 

 so delicate that it does no harm, especially as only one 

 vine is allowed to a tree. We have had these vines for 

 several years, never having to plant them since the orig- 

 inal seed, gathered in New Hampshire, was used. It 



