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Show THE GARDEN. j The margin between the possibilities possi-bilities and the actualities of the average farm garden is a thing of goodly dimensions. It is, naturally natur-ally enough, a difficult thing for the farmer to realize to what extent ex-tent of practical usefulness he may put a single acre of ground provided pro-vided he is willing and careful to bestow upon it the right kind of! attention. This is so because of the fact that in his farm work he looks more to general results. But when he comes down to work on a! smaller scale he finds things quite different. It is only recently that a committee took upon itself to in-I in-I vestigate somewhat as to what was j actually being ilone on some of the I small truck farms near one of our large cities, and they reported that one farm of forty acres yielded annually an-nually $1G,000 worth of fruits and vegetables; another of six acres yielded $G,000; another of ninety j acres yielded $10,000, hikI another! of twenty acres returned $8,000. These figures represent good receipts, re-ceipts, but even after making reductions for fertilizers and other necessary expenditures, the net returns, although not stated, wore no doubt handsome Apart, how-: ever, from the profits from exclusive exclu-sive truck farming, the garden trcre on the farm can be made an important im-portant item in the domestic economy econ-omy of the home, if we take into consideration all the expense attaching at-taching to the purchase of garden produce necessary to the health, comfort and well being of the family. |