. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. ^^^''^w^W^W^-^- -^^ -^^^^^,^ o ,???•:'- ™-zW'.".^'-^. VOL. III. spei:n^gfield, October, isos. Noia THE PUBLISHED MONTHLY, IIY Bailliaolie -]4 cents each, and o«e to person getting up club. CASH BATES OF ADVERTISING: One dollar per square of ten lines, each insertion. Market Gardens. The next best thing to a private garden about the dwelling, is a niai-l-ret fzardeu ia the neighborhood, where vegetables
. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. ^^^''^w^W^W^-^- -^^ -^^^^^,^ o ,???•:'- ™-zW'.".^'-^. VOL. III. spei:n^gfield, October, isos. Noia THE PUBLISHED MONTHLY, IIY Bailliaolie -]4 cents each, and o«e to person getting up club. CASH BATES OF ADVERTISING: One dollar per square of ten lines, each insertion. Market Gardens. The next best thing to a private garden about the dwelling, is a niai-l-ret fzardeu ia the neighborhood, where vegetables may be procured fresh on the day they are wanted for the table. With all the facilities for email gardens, witli toom and means enough, there are multitudes too lazy and ignorant to have them. You might set before them a section of paradise, and tell them that they have room enough, and time enough to real- ize more beautiful things than Adam and Eve saw, and it is nought to them. You may demonstrate to them, that it is the cheapest and best means of preserving health, and they will not bo moved. You may con- vince them that they can procure vegetables and fruits in their own yards, cheaper and better than they can be had elsewhere, and they will coolly respond, "that may be ; You may bring your arithmetic, and show them that by a little management, they can sell enough to get their own fruits and vege- tables for nothing. They are not inclined to invest. You may appeal to their parental sympathies, and show them that a garden is a good school of industry for their chikhv n, safeguard against vice, an excellent physic I discipline and means of health, and they will triunipiiautly respond that "mother takes care of the ; You cannot get them interested in soil culture by any of the ap- peals that move them on other subjects. They have either no practical acquaintance Avith gardening, or become disgusted with it early in life. It is associated
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