. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF MODERN AND PROGRESSIVE FRUIT GROWING AND MARKETING THE FRUIT GROWERS' SMALL VEGETABLE GARDEN BY W. H. WICKS, AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, MOSCOW, IDAHO HALF an acre of the horticul- tural grounds of this station was selected by Professor J. R. Shinn in the spring of 1908 for use as a vege- table garden. This area was maintained for such a purpose for two years. The object of this work was to secure definite data on methods of culture, yield, cost of production and the advisability of mai
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF MODERN AND PROGRESSIVE FRUIT GROWING AND MARKETING THE FRUIT GROWERS' SMALL VEGETABLE GARDEN BY W. H. WICKS, AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, MOSCOW, IDAHO HALF an acre of the horticul- tural grounds of this station was selected by Professor J. R. Shinn in the spring of 1908 for use as a vege- table garden. This area was maintained for such a purpose for two years. The object of this work was to secure definite data on methods of culture, yield, cost of production and the advisability of maintaining such a garden on the farms of Idaho. This garden was planned to give the greatest possible variety and continuous supply of vegetables as may be readily grown in the home garden, and which are very frequently not grown on account of the supposed expense and time required in their production. The garden was laid out in the form of a rectangle with rows running length- wise in order to admit horse cultivation and to reduce the expense of labor to the minimum. The ground was worked as early as advisable in the spring and put in shape for seeding and planting by the most approved method of this region. No fertilizer was applied during the two years of the experiment. This garden was located on the south- western slope of one of the hills which comprise the station gardens, and is typical of the average farm and garden land in this region. It is but a short distance to the market center of Moscow, so practically all the produce was deliv- ered to the general market or retailed to parties coming to the garden. This area is so situated that it admits the earliest possible cultivation in spring. It is free from all fall frosts until late in September. The more desirable locations for vege- table gardens are to be found on the warm slopes of the rolling hills which comprise this country. These aspects are to the east, the south and southwest. In locating the garden care was tak
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