then there will be an over-production

ake it easy for people to get on the land about the cities, then it would be equally

om the town by the high price of land and the large amount of land required, the fa

always be plenty too stupid or too old or too isolated to l

od which the world can consume is limited, the smaller will be the number of farmers required to produce the needed supply, and the larger will be the number driven from the country to the city. It has already been observed that if 3

derfed and whose constant thought is about their next meal; when we see hundreds of able-bodied men waiting in line until midnight for half a loaf of stale bread, surely it seems that there is a possibility of ke

ucts of the United States is not food. It is cotton, flax, hemp, wool, hides, timber, tobacco, dyes, drugs, flowers, ornamental trees and plants, horses, pets, and fancy stock, and hundreds of other non-edible commodit

ries increase in intimate ratio with the income, and the larger part of these come from the farm and fo

products alone, in this vicinity, are estimated at over $2,000,000. The sugar factory, which uses 2000 tons of beets every twenty-four hours, requires the yield of about 1900 acres every season. The beet crop is rotated with beans, and the factory's supply is kept good

stern land of the same quality and of like situation; but the tide seems at last to have turned, and much m

what a man wants to know-he is anxious to learn

a city; besides the returns which will come to the farmer from the use of a few acres, if he is the owner he will get a constant increase in the val

s back upon less desirable land, their loss, unle

ne's own use depends on the size of the

family of five persons with vegetables, not considering the winter supply of potatoes; bu

ll situated would abundantly supply with nearly all the vegetabl

know what we want an

book of this kind. On onion culture alone there are four standard

possibly a few berry bushes. A strip twenty feet wide may be reserved for vines, as melons, cucumbers and squashes. There remains a strip seventy feet wide, or space for twenty rows three and one half feat apart. T

o supply the family; (2) continuous succession of crops; (3) ease and cheapness

nhanced if all crops are in long rows, to allow of

y the producers or by those (as in Mr. Rowe's case), with whom he directly deals, more than twenty-five dollars capital is not necessary, but Pe

ted a fortune may be made in cult

er of market gardeners worth from ten to forty thousand dolla

ut of his plot, it is best to put part of the land into clo

o cultivate a little land successfully, that you should work all day on your

eaper than you can do it yourself. Those who will read this book can earn more with their heads than their hands; but when weeding is needed after a sudden shower and there is no on

erience of one

scientific gardening. The beginning was an unfortunate one. The weather happened to be first very wet, and then so dry and hot that my vegetables were unable to break their way through the baked earth. When my peas and beans still gave no signs after being in the ground for two weeks, I discovered that the whole work would have to be done over again. A Presidential campaign was beginning, which kept me in town often late at night, so that the chief labor of the garden fell to my faithful Irishman, who got far more satisfaction out of it than I did. The vegetables finally did come up above the surface, and many an evening I finished a hard day's work by pumping and carrying hundreds of gallons of water to pour upon potato plants, tomatoes, bea

lled ground, regardless of suitability, and "wait till

per pound; maize for one half cent per pound. Why? Because anybody, even a squaw, ca

st cultivate with brains. The Germans say, "

ave a li

a horse

ill drive

drive th

care of them yourself; pigs are good farm catch-alls. If you have to

land enough in a neighborhood where up-to-date parents are willing to pay ten to twenty cents a quart for pure milk for their infants or even for f

ing account of Marcus Terentius Varro's "De Re Rustica." Varro wrote in the year 37 B.C., and as he was then eighty years old, he had seen the transformation

the destruction been that it is only in our generation that the Campagna at Rome, which was once an intensely fruit

, intensive cultivation close to the cities, and the breeding of "fa

an excellent farm of about 200 acres only yielded 30,000 sesterces per annum. He quotes another case of one who made 40,000 ses

tant for the history of ancient Italy and says h

ven or ten acres), four morgen being equal to one hectare. Of this land, at least a third, and sometimes a half, was left uncultivated each year. The remainder of the fifteen to twenty morgen sufficed to feed and fatten int

sed produce at the rate of $150 to $400 per acre and over, even in semi-arid regions; for instance, L. E. Burnham says that he raised

t days' work, nearly

ts and prices would probably average about three quarters, and those of common labor perhaps one third over those giv

hat straw makes the cleanest mulch for strawberries; that's the reason th

d on one quarter of an acre $146.

over $295 (Dora Dietrich, Pennsylvania); with the rather exceptional

high profits; one of a third of an acre gav

d accurate and reliable. Covering such a vast territory local conditions are avoided." It shows that "the average size of farm gardens was 24,372 square feet

e know. The finest game in the world is to teach. No one

imself. When you show him how to do it, still he doesn't know that he co

ey are busy on the farm. There are several schools trying the experience of allowing the children to plant in window boxes in early April and are showing them how to do it. But as there is not room for a

s, but it was all the more important that they shou

esk. They are only three inches deep, with a bottom of tin, turned up at the edges, or of well painted pine, white-leaded at the joints. There is no drainage, since we discovered that

uff at the four corners, so that the box looks like a kitchen table turned upside down (see illustration). Now the boxes fille

drying up, or the boxes can be covered and carried home by the children. We found that for most plants nine inches is high enough for the

re nailed together. It makes them more water-tight. Fo

lants, as well as flowers, in the winter; and when the plants get too big or two crowde

ong again as it is wide. But this box does not stand outside on the window sill; if it did, the plants would freeze. One end only rests o

he window and the sash closed down on it to keep it from falling out. A

it's astonishing how much can be raised and how much more can be learned

d see for

ft. as they can from a children's garden. Here are a couple of s

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wers. Each one of us have 1/4 of a box. When we had finished that we brou

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has five rows. In the first there are radishes, in the second lettuce, in the thi

0 has been recorded from sales in one year from one acre, and many cases in which at

d fertile soil of the new world nor to small

on's Farm): 28 tons of potatoes (say 952 bushels), 16 tons of marigold, 105 to

Department that it might fix standa

, supposed to be an average good player, could make on those links. On one typical club-course, for instance, the Bogie s

and good cultivation set in each section, it would enormously en

f the Department r

is that what is accomplished in one year would not be duplicated on the same soil and under the same management again in several years, for the conditions under which agriculture is carried on are so many of them outside of the control of the operator that it is very difficult to predict results or to attain any fixed standard. This is necessarily so with an operation which has so many uncertain factors to deal with as agriculture. Humidity of the atmosphere and of the soil, the available pl

armer or teacher of agriculture might advantageously establi

ius Vanderbilt was a member. One of the standard jokes there was that the thirty members are worth on an average over two million apiece, that is, Cornelius sixty millions, and the r

ter than the "average," to make anything more than the farmer's hard

th' cows that left th' call f'r four o'clock. Thin it's ho! f'r feedin' th' pigs an' mendin' th' reaper. Th' sun arises as usual in th' east, an' bein' a keen student iv nature he picks a cabbage leaf to put in his hat. Breakfast follows, a gay meal beginnin' at nine an' endin' at nine-three. Thin it's off f'r th' fields where all day he sets on a bicy