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Show Youth's Garden Helps Pay College Expenses Anyone who says that a farm garden, is a waste of time should talk to James Rodgers, 19, Jefferson Jeffer-son County, Colo. Jim knows that a garden pays, because the garden on the Rodgers Rod-gers farm is helping him through Colorado A. & M. college. He started his gardening records rec-ords when he was in 4-H work, and has continued them. He knows, for instance, that last year his garden gar-den paid him $1.85 for every odd-time odd-time hour he put in on it. Returns from his one-third acre totaled $322.32. Expenses (seed, plants, fertilizer, marketing, land rental) totaled $43.40. His best profit makers were tomatoes. Four rows, each 60 feet long, ripened 2,259 pounds of fruit. Jim calls the local grocer every Wednesday evening for his order, y and then delivers the produce, clean, fresh, and neatly pacxaged Thursday mornings. |