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Juno 12, 1920 
An Ohio Veteran’s Experiment 
Part II. 
Overhead Expenses. — All manufac¬ 
turers have two classes of expenses. One 
is for labor and material, the other for 
building or shop, with the expense of 
maintaining the same, among which comes 
interest, insurance, heat and light, watch¬ 
men, etc. These latter are known as 
overhead expenses, and have to be reck¬ 
oned with in determining cost of manu¬ 
facturing. It goes without saying that if 
more men can he worked in a shop with¬ 
out crowding then it lessens cost, as heat, 
light and insurance are not increased. 
What is true of shops is also true of 
agricultural operations. The gardener on 
land worth several hundred dollars per 
acre lias to diminish the percentage of 
overhead costs by hotter tillage and mul¬ 
tiple cropping. The farmer on low-priced 
land can neglect corners and half till his 
ground, hut the gardener must give every 
foot of ground careful attention and see 
that the crops not only arc well started 
but well taken care of. 
Make Idle Land Work.— There are 
thousands of homes where this paper goes 
where more or less ground is idle that 
could produce something. For example, 
flower borders, if sown in rows with re¬ 
gard to the permanent flower planting, 
could produce early radishes, lettuce and 
bunch onions. On my garden- onion sets 
planted in March, only seven weeks ago, 
are big enough for bunching, and lettuce 
sown at the same time will he big enough 
to commence on in two months from sow¬ 
ing. and had it been sown in a flower bor¬ 
der could be intercropped with flowers 
(geraniums, etc.), by Memorial Day, the 
usual time for putting out bedding plants 
here. I have just made my first sale of 
garden products in the shape of rhubarb 
stalks, being 28 pounds at 7 cents per 
pound from eight hills. These are two 
feet apart, and allowing four feet for 
width of row they occupy <»4 feet of 
ground, or one six hundred and eightieth 
part of more than an acre. There will 
be another small pulling, making at. the 
rate of more than $1,400 per acre. There 
is scarcely a backyard in any open village 
where four hills could not be maintained, 
furnishing from year to year not only a 
limited supply of pie material, but an 
object lesson of interest besides. 
A Belgian Example. —Several years 
ago Brand Whitlock, at that time mayor 
of Toledo, in an address of welcome to 
the American Association of Vegetable 
Growers, stated that one of the things he 
saw in Belgium which would probably 
Temain fresh in his mind wheh he had 
forgotten all else of his travel experience 
was that of a small irregular triangle in 
the midst of a switchyard planted to a 
thrifty looking growth of a salad plant 
(probably Swiss chard). Here some 
thriftily-minded yard man had utilized 
this little plot of waste ground, and taken 
advantage of the opportunity it afforded. 
Probably this plot, in an atmosphere con¬ 
stantly warmed by a hundred operating 
engines afforded a season several weeks 
longer than land out of the city. The 
overhead expenses were nothing. 
Another Railroad Gardener. — An 
example in my own experience will always 
occur to me when I consider the possi¬ 
bilities of any garden. Some 40 or more 
years ago an Irish family lived in a shanty 
on a railroad right of way. Beside the 
home was a bit of rich ground. This 
was spaded up and set to a hundred late 
cabbages. The ground was perhaps 30x40 
feet in size, and more than 90 of the 
plants made large beads, which at a safe 
estimate weighed more than six pounds 
each. Here was probably more than 000 
pounds of cabbage grown on waste ground 
with probably less than 30 hours of labor 
put on in spare moments. 
Cabbage and Squash. —I frequently 
mss a very nicely managed 12-acre farm, 
vast Summer on this place was a patch 
<»f sweet corn which matured in early 
September. Here and there were missing 
hills, and the owner set a plant of Flat 
Dutch cabbage in each vacancy. After 
the corn was picked and the stalks fed to 
the cow the cabbages grew wonderfully, 
so that toward the close of October the 
majority of Lends would each crowd a 
half bushel. As such cabbage was in 
brisk demand at. 4 or 5 cents per pound, 
each head was worth from 30 to 50 cents 
or more, and each grew where ordinary 
gardeners would have got nothing. One 
year I had dealings with a man who 
lived on a narrow lot 200 feet deep. At 
the back end of the lot adjoining on the 
east was a stable, and a chicken yard 
stretched along some 50 feet, including 
manure heaps. The vacant lot was not 
occupied in any way along the dividing 
fence, and 1 suggested to him that he 
plant hills of Hubbard squash close to the 
fence, and see if lie could utilize some of 
the fertility being wasted on the other 
side. He did so, and raised nearly a ton 
of nice squashes. 
Trellis Tom a toes.— Perhaps, however, 
most remarkable of all is the case of a 
groceryman who lived iu a one-story cot¬ 
tage in the outskirts of a city. On each 
side of the front door was a rickety green 
trellis, meeting overhead. It lYfrii.some¬ 
time supported a straggling matrimony 
vine. The vine was gone, and in the 
fertile soil he planted two Beauty tomato 
plants. As they grew he pinched off side 
branches, and when they reached a height 
of three feet began to set fruit. The 
vines reached the top of the trellis, and 
then he put a poleacross under the eaves, 
and before the cold weather of early 
November killed the vines they hail 
reached a length of about 17 feet each. 
They produced large beautiful fruit for 
more than five months, and as a wonder¬ 
ful curiosity attracted attention all over 
that section of the city. Neighbors 
brought friends to see and people came 
long distances also. Singular to relate, 
the possession of these wonderful tomato 
vines increased the grocer’s business down 
town, two miles away. The vines adver¬ 
tised him, and incidentally his store. 
Given opportunity, support and food, 
plants will do unbclievoable stunts. One 
August day I saw an ivy-covered church 
in San Francisco. In the angle made by 
(he tower and the front wall a geranium 
had climbed, sustained by the ivy. anil 
was putting out a wealth of crimson color 
25 feet from the ground. 
Late Planting. —This paper will 
reach the readers on about the last lap 
of general garden planting season. I hope 
every reader will look around and see if 
(here is not some vacant spot that can 
be made more beautiful and useful at the 
same time. Around many a country 
barnyard and in many spent hotbeds 
thousands of weed seeds are germinating. 
Among them here and there is one of 
superabundant energy. Down possibly 
two inches under the rubbish it pushes 
a thread-like stem, and upon reaching 
daylight it still pushes upward, some¬ 
times three inches, with a stem no larger 
than a horsehair. On top of this tiny 
stem is flaunted a flag of defiance in the 
shape of two tiny cotyledons no larger 
than a grain of wheat. Time passes, and 
Ibis masterful plant has obtained a place 
in the sun and begins to overshadow the 
various neighbors, such as ragweed, 
smartweed, nettles, foxtail, etc. Finally 
November stops its triumphal progress 
when it has reached a height of seven feet, 
and branched enough to produce a hun¬ 
dred thousand seeds. In the beginning 
no conditions could seem more unfavor¬ 
able, yet all were overcome. Gentle 
reader, do you wish to be less persevering 
and energetic than a pigweed seed? At 
this writing I am trying to start some 
hundreds of melons, cucumbers and 
squashes in pots and tin cans, but find 
it very discouraging, as the mice are tak¬ 
ing the seeds. I paid a neighbor 20 cents 
a week to keep two handsome cats while 
I was in Florida, and they are paying for 
it by sleeping beside the cans or wander¬ 
ing far afield while the mice run riot. 
The Boys at Play.— While writing 
this paper I have been interrupted twice. 
Once by an amateur movie show as staged 
by children. I have with me four little 
boys, Ihc youngest IS months old. the 
others two years apart. The three oldest 
and a visiting cousin of six were playing 
around the hitching post in an auto rut 
■at their favorite amusement of filling 
paper bags with moist soil and calling it 
sugar. Something went wrong, and Dick, 
aged five, grabbed a bag from Lewis, aged 
three, and threw it over his shoulder out 
upon the lawn. Did Lewis whimper and 
run to mamma with his troubles? Not 
much. lie looked about, for a weapon and 
found it in the shape of a dried weed 
stalk (lie dog had brought, and grabbing 
the weapon, he proceeded to lambaste the 
three older boys on their bare heads. lie 
got through the second round before they 
recovered from surprise and seized their 
bags of sugar and beat a hasty retreat for 
the front porch. Lewis viewed the retreat 
with evident satisfaction, threw away the 
stick, retrieved his bag and played on the 
field of battle alone until called to supper. 
I imagine that this curly-headed, brown¬ 
haired boy will do something of value 
when he grows up. 
Lilac Gatherers. —The other interrup¬ 
tion came a little later. Four tall, slim, 
good-looking young women filed past the 
window, and soon there came a timid 
knock. On opening the door, one of them 
said they wanted lilac bloom. I told them 
that Memorial Day was near at hand, and 
I contemplated making the lilacs into 
bunches and selling them at 25c a bunch 
the day before. They said they wanted to 
pay for them, and began to show halves 
and quarters in profusion. I took 75c 
and told them to pick until they got, their 
money’s worth, which they proceeded to 
do. Four others were with them in a big 
touring car. They bore upon their per¬ 
sons the odors of mignonette, heliotrope 
and attar of roses, and wore the latest 
flimsy, frail, Georgette waists. One of 
them, I was sure, had on a beautiful cre¬ 
ation that 1 had seen two days before m 
a show window marked down from $10.J*> 
to $8.05. They were indeed good to look 
upon, and I was glad that I had changed 
my dirty garden clothes and washed and 
shaved. They departed in a cloud of dust, 
and a mingled odor of gasoline and lilac 
perfume floated back, mixed witli joyous 
laughter. Added to the personal beauty 
of these girls was a look of conscious pow¬ 
er and decision of character which augers 
well for the future of Ohio. 
Summit Co., O. I* PIEKCE. 
