Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . ffect was the mostmarked I ever saw; that portion on which the guano hadbeen used sold off readily at $12 per hundred, or about$1400 per acre, both price and crop being more than anaverage; but the portion from which the guano had beeDwithheld, hardly averaged $3 per 100. The street occu-pied fully an acre of ground, so that my friend actually lostover $1000 in crop, by withholding $60 for manure. An-other neighbor, whose lease had only one year to run, andwho also unwisely concluded that it would be
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . ffect was the mostmarked I ever saw; that portion on which the guano hadbeen used sold off readily at $12 per hundred, or about$1400 per acre, both price and crop being more than anaverage; but the portion from which the guano had beeDwithheld, hardly averaged $3 per 100. The street occu-pied fully an acre of ground, so that my friend actually lostover $1000 in crop, by withholding $60 for manure. An-other neighbor, whose lease had only one year to run, andwho also unwisely concluded that it would be foolish towaste manure on his last crop, planted and sowed all with-out it; the result was, as his experience should have taughthim, a crop of inferior quality in every article grown, andloss on his eight acres of probably $2000 for that season. CHAPTER VIII IMPLEMENTS. The most important implements in use in the vegetablegarden are the plow and harrow, which should be alwaysused, to the exclusion of the spade or digging fork, when-ever it is practicable to do so. No digging, in the ordi-. Fig. 5.—ALLENS CYLINDER PLOW. nary way, can pulverize the soil so thoroughly as can bedone by the plow and harrow, nor no trenching much sur-pass in its results that done by thorough subsoiling. represents the plow in use by the market gardeners, andknown as Allens Patent Cylinder Plow. So superior areits pulverizing powers to those of the spade, that we knowof no market gardener who would allow his grounds tobe dug, even if it were done free of 40 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. Miners Gold Medal Subsoil Plow (fig. 6) is the bestsubsoil plow we know of. It involves new principles andaccomplishes the work of stirring, loosening, aerating, and
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