Show MONEY MADE O OUT T OFA OF OFA OFA A FLOWER BED BEDIn In the Garden arden and Orchard department department depart depaTt- ment mont of the current Issue of Farm and Fireside de P. P N N. N Darling tells as follows about a man n In n Now ow York t st te named C. C a O. O who although not a trained agriculturist has tho the peculiar knack of ot producing garden crops which are ara almost sure to lake lak first prize Vegetable Ve Vegetable Vege- Vege e- e table tabU gardening Is n a pleasure to him be because because be- be cause caule It tt is 16 his hobby and nd last Jast year h ho he did didt t that thai nobody else elFie in tho the village thought of doing Perhaps Perhaps his achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment meat described aa as follows will Fill suggest a a. means of entertainment and small profits to others In his back door yard ard there Is an old flower bed boo ten by sixteen feet foet on which he raised 40 worth orthof of onions onion and rid radishes This was NIlS his hlo plan for making such a profit from such euch a 8 small BOlan urea area a About April 1 h he h planted one one- bushel of ot onion sots in rows rons eight Inches apart Then he placed over them a covering of straw to keep oft orr the tho frost rost As soon as IU they wore waie lar largo large o enough eno to oat eat the they were put In bunches of or twenty or 01 fl e ve and aud sold flold to the local man for tor i 5 L cents a R bunch He sold bunches About the tho first of ot May MIlr radishes wore were Wore's s 's sown sonn wn between the row rows o of onions onIon and ne as soon room as these were nere large larse enough th they y yere were ere placed in bunches of about thirty and sold for tor 6 S cent a n. bunch to tho local merchants Five O hundred bunches were old The cost of ot the tho onion sets and the tho radish seed Including all nit labor items Hems W was IJ about 10 which leaves a a. net profit of or 30 30 realized from drops crops grown in an area of or often orten often ten b by sixteen n feet feel Of Of course this scheme ml might ht not bo be practical in mil all places R and under all nil con con- but it In Is at least worth trying by th those e who rc ll near town |