. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. March 29, 1917. The Florists' Review 31. Bulbous Stock Will Be the Big Seller This Easter» but Heather Has Its Friends. I have a farm paper at home which, in the last number, say^ it is* easy to grow 5,000 or more, and at 10 cents a plant that means $500, a nice little sum, which would help me in paying for the land and supporting my family. And, may- be, in a couple of years or more I would not have to drive that laundry ; "Sure, Mike/' I said, "but liave you any greenhouses on these grounds?" "Oh, no; the farming pa
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. March 29, 1917. The Florists' Review 31. Bulbous Stock Will Be the Big Seller This Easter» but Heather Has Its Friends. I have a farm paper at home which, in the last number, say^ it is* easy to grow 5,000 or more, and at 10 cents a plant that means $500, a nice little sum, which would help me in paying for the land and supporting my family. And, may- be, in a couple of years or more I would not have to drive that laundry ; "Sure, Mike/' I said, "but liave you any greenhouses on these grounds?" "Oh, no; the farming paper says greenhouses are not necessarv. Hotbeds will ; Writers Know It All. "Ah, so," I blurted out, "great fel- lows, these farm paper writers. They act me, and you, and everybody else. They know everything. They know it all. They tell you how to make lice powder for man and beast; cough drops out of cornstalks; chocolate wafers out of dried and powdered horse chestnuts; a combination suit for the oldest boy out of burlap, and so on. "Now, Mr. Man," I said to the laun- 'Iryman, "let us talk plain business. Have you any money to put up for do- ing something with your land?" "Oh, yes, a couple of hundred dol- '"rs, but I want to make ; "Certainly," I said, "but not in U'oraniums. It takes more tlian a couple "f hundred dollars to do tliat. It takes Knowledge, material and certain time. '•'it you take your money, buy good seed I'otatocs, almost any early ones, and a 'ouplo of tons of sheep and cow manure, spread it over the ground, have it plowed "oil and harrowed fine, then plant the ^puds properly and keep your family at 't from morning to night, hoeing and |\"ceding, and hilling up the plants, and ''>' the end of the month of August you ^\ill have your monev back in vour pocket with a nice profit, and a healthv- looking family, besides. And do not believe these farm papers ''l»
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