. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. THE FIRST PRIZE WINNER. From ]. E. Butler, Lewiston, Idaho. We came to Lewiston in August, 1907, from South St. Joseph, Mo., where I had followed the house contracting business for a number of years. We first bought five acres, and then thought that was not enough, so we bought " ^ five acres more and now have ten acres, a little * over 600 feet square. The house, lawn, chicken pens, corral, etc., take up about one acre, so we have about nine acres in cultivation. One acre is ., ' â
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. THE FIRST PRIZE WINNER. From ]. E. Butler, Lewiston, Idaho. We came to Lewiston in August, 1907, from South St. Joseph, Mo., where I had followed the house contracting business for a number of years. We first bought five acres, and then thought that was not enough, so we bought " ^ five acres more and now have ten acres, a little * over 600 feet square. The house, lawn, chicken pens, corral, etc., take up about one acre, so we have about nine acres in cultivation. One acre is ., ' â ' >-''â planted to grapes, and the balance, except two acres on the back corner, are set to trees 20 feet Some of Henry Field's Big Pumpkins and Squashes apart, every other l:ee an apple with peach, pear, plum, etc., as fillers. When the fillers get to crowding the apples, we will take them out, which will leave the apple trees 40 feet apart. But at present we are raising our truck between the tree rows 20 feet apart, and generally have four rows in each land, except the little truck which is planted with the hand drill, we plant seven to eight rows. Products sold from the ten acres in 1911 were as follows: SALES BY MONTHS. January $ February March April May June July August September October November to date Total $1, 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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