get the largest product for his labor, he ought to produce all that he can consume on the least possible area. Though one may go

ny kind of a windbreak. This arrangement will give the earliest garden, for it gets all the sun there is. By running the rows

te freezing and thawing during the winter breaks up the sod and the stiff lumps thrown up by the plow, so rendering the soil pliable a

table plot that has been in red clover, alfalfa, soy beans, or cowpeas for a number of years, so much the better. These plants have on their roots n

l give the fine roots a chance to grow as soon as the seeds sprout. Too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of thoroughly working the

e time spent upon planting succession crops will depend upon the amount of the garden reserved for rotation. The part kept for lettuce, radishes, spinach, beets, Swiss chard, peas, string and wax beans may be digged over in a favorable season for three successive plantings, while the part devoted to early potatoes wou

, for if they are planted too thin, it makes a sort of advantage by giving the individual plants ample room to

tables can be increased by transplanting, in favorable s

eds dying, or to put in so many seeds in order to insure growth that they will crowd on

if dropped in carelessly so they have to turn themselves over. In a sma

fect of transplanting without so much labor. In others, like lettuce and all the salad plants, transplanting gives new life a

r salad, after the beans are picked. Then late crops, cabbage, cauliflower or spinach, can

ce, lima beans should not follow green beans or peas, as all the family draw about t

too near each other, as they will often in

fore you plant it, whether to sell it, at wholesa

ment: "For the beginner who wants to get fresh vegetables and f

, not beds, and a

hat mature at the same

the same height near t

nvenience in cultivation and because o

agus, rhubarb, sweet herbs) at one side

place. The other important groups for rotation are root crops (including potatoes an

in a small garden. They

ire, the smaller fruit plant

pple trees run a grape trellis; and then in succession east and west, run a row of blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and currants. These rows, with the apple trees, form a wi

st or powder destroy most insects which prey on the leaves of plants. The reason for this is that the dust

uce the damage from insects, because each family has its peculiar bugs. By c

ted in them and therefore understand them can manag

in it may help out your home garden bank account. Of course a pond a few square yards

he Civil War, lives in Kenilworth, D. C., and clears $1500 an acre eve

ers in the pond lilies. His is not exactly a "dry farm" and neither wet nor cloudy weather bothers him. Furthermore, the dem

between them, and rollers on the dams to enable him to drag his boat from one to the other. From May to late in September he is bu

value of produce grown on the 250 gardens, composing the school plot, in all about one and one quarter acres of land, was $1308, or at the rate of more than a thousan

ed labor produce when ap