Show Intensive Culture an Experiment George May Powell says of one of a series of experiments he has made at I his home in Newfield N J to help develop intensive farming The point of these experiments is to aid in showing show-ing how farming can be made so attractive at-tractive and profitable that people need not leave rural life and endanger the nation by crowdIng into cities and towns In this case a single tomato plant was made to grow over 100 feet i of vine and supply more fruit than an average garden furnishes Also to yield near two months after such fruit is gone in most gardens A hole IS 4 inches square and 12 inches deep was dug the top soil laid on one side and the lower soil on the other A half bushel of good manure was put in and the top soil on that A tomato plant in bloom with a spadeful of earth on its roots was set in this and the lower soil put in a circle around making the plant to stand in the bottom of a cup to hold slops and water daily put in As the plant grew it was esplanaded over a frame with a southerly slope Of course the same plan can be made to help anyone of tens of thousands of poor families in any of our large cities A back yard or a roof or window and a box or barrel of earth with a tomato or cucumber or winter squash plant would so furnish healthful and profitable profit-able sustenence o |