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town lots as possible for a kitchen garden. 
This piece of land properly handled and 
as many different kinds of vegetables 
grown as the family may like, and in 
such quantities as to more than supply 
their need. You can always exchange 
nice fresh vegetables for groceries that 
you need and cannot produce. 
Who in this audience would not feel 
better by getting up some bright clear 
morning just as the sunbeams were mak¬ 
ing the dewdrops sparkle as diamonds, go 
out in their own kitchen garden and 
gather a basket of luscious strawberries 
that had ripened on the vine? Just think 
of plucking the blushing beauties from 
under the shadows of their dark green 
leaves! And all the pleasures do not stop 
here. For when these have been capped 
and sugar has been sprinkled over them 
and allowed to stand for awhile, then 
they are served with pure golden cream 
poured over them, who would not say 
that a kitchen garden is worth having; 
even if this were the only thing we could 
get from it? 
But it affects one other thing that is 
very dear to everyone here—that is our 
pocketbook. Yes, we can reduce the cost 
of living by having this garden if we 
manage it right. 
Would I be asking too much if I should 
insist that everyone that has not already 
a kitchen garden start one, and those that 
now have a garden grow more and better 
vegetables in it. 
Discussion 
Mr. Mead: I want to say a few words 
in corroboration of the paper we heard 
on vegetables. In Sanford, the feeding 
of stock has been tried very successfully. 
If anyone has a silo, the local banks will 
lend him enough money to buy cattle to 
be repaid when the cattle are fattened 
and sold. Not only is there a profit in 
fattening the cattle and selling them, but 
there is also the value of the manure to be 
counted in. A ten acre lot may be ex¬ 
pected to return a profit of $800.00 dur¬ 
ing the summer in the cattle, and the 
manure obtained is of almost equal value 
with the cattle profit. 
Mr. Tenny: I just want to make an 
announcement that I think will be of in¬ 
terest to the people here who are inter¬ 
ested in truck. I am not directly, of 
course, interested in truck growing, but it 
is rather difficult for me to keep out of 
any farmers’ organization. 
We scarcely appreciate the extent of 
the trucking on the East Coast and also 
in other parts of Florida. Approximately 
6,000 cars of tomatoes moved from the 
East Coast last year. There are heavy 
losses due to diseases and poor methods 
of handling, and a movement has been 
started during the past year that is going 
to be very far reaching. We have gotten 
two organizations on the lower East Coast 
to co-operate with the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington and with the 
State Experiment Staion at Gainesville, 
to undertake another series of experi¬ 
ments to investigate all sorts of truck 
diseases and truck growers' difficulties. 
We are about ready to sign up a memo¬ 
randum agreement which will probably 
be signed in the next month or six weeks, 
