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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1919 
crops; but generally it is better to 
have some specialty. 
To illustrate as to the propor- 
tion of land allotted to the differ- 
ent crops that a truck gardener, 
sending a wagon to the city fre- 
quently, might consider, I will 
give the following outline : 
Asparagus bed, permanently lo- 
cated, one-half acre. 
Early leaf letture, spinach, head 
lettuce, early beets, carrots and 
set onions, one-half acre. 
This land to be used again for 
celery, head lettuce, spinach and 
winter radishes. 
Dwarf green peas and early 
wax beans, planted in drills, one 
acre. This land to be planted to 
early bantam sweet corn and pie 
pumpkins as soon as the peas and 
beans show their second leaves. 
The peas and beans will get out of 
the way of the corn and will help 
the corn if anything by drawing 
nitrogen to the soil. 
Black seed onions, one-half 
acre. 
Beets, carrots and parsnips, 
one-half acre. 
Cow beets for stock and chick- 
ens, one-fourth acre. 
Peppers, cauliflower and egg 
plant, one-fourth acre. 
Muskmelons and cucumbers, 
one-half acre. 
Tomatoes, cabbage, early and 
late, berries, each one-half acre. 
The tomato, melon and cucum- 
ber and late cabbage land to be 
seeded broad cast to early round 
red radishes and also to cabbage 
seed for plants. The radishes 
divided in three sowings, a week 
apart. Early cabbage ground to 
be followed with spinach and leaf 
lettuce. Bound radishes to be 
seeded any time a space is avail- 
able up to the middle of Septem- 
ber. 
One-half acre of strawberries to 
be set out each spring and old 
patch plowed under after picking. 
This ground to be seeded to late 
table beets, turnips and spinach. 
Vegetable and flowering plants 
and hardy perennial plants are 
often included in the gardener s 
list of marketable crops. 
The hot beds are to be used both 
in the spring and fall for forcing 
lettuce, radishes, etc. 
The stover from the peas, beans 
and sweet corn will furnish stock 
feed, consequently some of the 
grass land will not be needed so 
much for hay, but can be put un- 
der cultivation, and more fruit 
and potatoes may be raised; also 
a few rows of Hubbard squash. 
The soil should be tile-drained and 
be of a loose texture so that it may 
be worked at any time. 
A Florida real estate man was i 
bragging how they start picking 
strawberries down there at Christ- 
mas time, and in three months 
gather five hundred dollars worth 
of berries from an acre. A quick ; 
answer from a Wisconsin man j 
came, “Why, we can get that 
much off an acre of berries in I 
three weeks and have two months I 
to go fishing on you fellows if we 
want to.” 
We will welcome into the good i 
fellowship of the Horticultural i| 
Society any one who wishes to I 
join our ranks. It does not make 
any difference where you go or 
what you grow, there are the long i 
hours, the close figuring and an 
element of chance to contend 
with. “Our life is a compromise, 
sometimes fair, sometimes over- 
cast; tempestuous and serene. As 
in a rose, flowers and prickles. A 
temperate summer sometimes, a 
hard winter, a drouth, and then ,i 
again pleasant showers. So is| 
our life intermixed with joy,, 
hopes and fears.” 
