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Show 1 Gardens That Produce Results ; : 5 i l; : Gardening is a favorite pastime to many city dwellers and a source of considerable income to people in all walks of life. Is your garden producing an income in-come and better health for you? Have you ever thought of the possibility pos-sibility of making an attractive as well as a profitable garden in your backyards ? Many backyards will yield as much as $100.00 worth of vegetables in a season. Few gardens will yield less Man $10 to $20 worth. Perhaps equaly as important, there is health to be dug out of the soil. The digging will produce an appetite and the results of intelligent digging- will supply the means to satisfy the appetite. There is nothing mysterious about this process and nothing especially difficult except the inclination or ability abil-ity to put a little time and effort into the work. Many gardeners are discouraged by the condition of their soil, but many conditions that are considered unfavorable unfav-orable are not really so bad as they seem and it is more a question of adapting the soil to the vegetables or of planting the kinds of vegetables that will do well on the soil you have than it is to be discouraged in the matter. In planting any garden, unques- den growing something useful at all times. These preliminary steps will be greatly appreciated as the season advances. ad-vances. The accompanying drawing illustrates illus-trates a plan that may serve as a working basis for almost any home garden. It has .been designed for a garden 50 feet by 90 feet that will be occupied during the season, and is arranged with, necessary . economy of the land in question. It may serve as a guide for a plot of any size. After the plan has been made and the space arranged for the various crops, the varieties of each crop to be planted must be determined on. This is a very important step and will be discussed later on in this column. col-umn. By Seth W. Shoemaker, Director, Di-rector, School of Agriculture, International Inter-national Correspondence Schools. I ' " 7T- V ?I- j EAfLYCORN FOLLOWED 8TURNl PS Mj - .t .EARLY POTATO Elf? ro1. i.ov.'cra DyLflTr.C4Bv:lG I ,,,1-, i r ? jzyj? J- v j1 , fe-i 4-' - i - I J EARLYGABBAGE followed byLATE PEPSa I 14, CfcA " iPtfl FOLLOWED BlSPN'XCH? 1 Tl Mm.EARLYPEASANoBEANSroLLowD L-J3l: STy tT $?&&&'$i& PA R SN i PS'&" 7 Uf'-v" SMCARROTSl : - - ' A Welt PlarvT.ed Gdrder. i tionably the first thing to do is to start with a paper and pencil. Much time, some backache, and many heartaches heart-aches will be avoided by simply making mak-ing out a plan that may be systematically system-atically followed. Many gardens are spoiled by yielding yield-ing to the temptation to rush alieyl and buy seeds at the corner grocery or from some alluring catalogue without with-out having any definite idea of just what is required. The beginner at least will be wise to confine his garden to paper for the first few days. Gardening on paper merely consists con-sists in making a diagram of the garden to be, including those vegetables vege-tables which-you would like to have and which perhaps will be able to grow with the best success. The space required for each kind of vegetables vege-tables should be considered. The rows should be plotted out and a succession of crops planned that can be handled so as to keep the gar- |