. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 14 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS Sorry I can't send some pictures, because 1 know it will make you feel bad. My garden paid me well. I kept the weeds out and cultivated it, too. This is all true, Mr. Field. Geo. Klein, Kansas Ci(p, Missouri, 3136 Cleveland Ave. PLANTED POTATOES IN A SNOWSTORM. From Mrs. Lena Tossell, Crivitz, Wisconsin. I raised last year on one-half acre of ground twenty bushels of onions, and I sold thirteen bushels at $ per bushel. My early potatoes, I sold at forty cents a peck. 1 planted them
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 14 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS Sorry I can't send some pictures, because 1 know it will make you feel bad. My garden paid me well. I kept the weeds out and cultivated it, too. This is all true, Mr. Field. Geo. Klein, Kansas Ci(p, Missouri, 3136 Cleveland Ave. PLANTED POTATOES IN A SNOWSTORM. From Mrs. Lena Tossell, Crivitz, Wisconsin. I raised last year on one-half acre of ground twenty bushels of onions, and I sold thirteen bushels at $ per bushel. My early potatoes, I sold at forty cents a peck. 1 planted them the 23d of April 5 i_&. 16 Kinds of Vegetables grown in a Garden in the ' 'Cut Over" Country of Northern Wisconsin. five pounds. I never saw such radishes, they were so tender. My husband plows real ^ deep and harrows the gar- den two or three times, then he leaves it ail to me and 1 plant a little of everything. I have a garden plow and seeder, so I keep it thor- oughly cultivated and hoed and keep all the weeds down. That is the secret of a good garden in my eyes. I love to work in my garden. 1 am a poor scholar, but it is the truth. I have told you as plain as I know how. Mrs. Lena Tossell, Crivitz, Wisconsin m a snowstorm. People laughed at me, but I was the one to laugh last. It was so dry last year that I saved all my wash wa- ter and carried barrels of if and it paid me, for I had a fine garden. I had three different plantings of sweet corn, and sold the most of it for one cent an ear. I had three wagonloads of squash which I sold at fen and twenty cents each. I had one squash that weighed over thirty-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Field, Henry, 1871- [from old catalog] comp. Shenandoah, Ia. , The Henry Field seed co.
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