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Show A BACK-YARD THRIFT TALE. Here is a clipping giving actual facts and figures which show con. cluslvely that the gardens vou are advocating ad-vocating in your editorials can be made to reduce the high cost of living. It is part of an article, entitled "Thrift Tales From Back Yards." in the Countryside Coun-tryside Magazine for October. The writer is Professor Frank R. Arnold of the Agricultural College at Logan, and the thrifty owner of the garden mentioned is a well-known resident of , the Cache Valley metropolis. Professor Profes-sor Arnold says: "No yard is too small to grow a few radishes, a plant of garden sage, or a grape-vine. "Tho most productive piece of I know is a back yard 127 feet, square. The owner gets economy of light by planting first a row of corn, then three rows of potatoes, then two rows of corn, then three rows of potatoes, then two more rows of corn, and finally a row of spring onions and carrots, replaced re-placed In late August by late lettuce, let-tuce, just as the corn has been preceded in the spring by radishes rad-ishes and lettuce. Economy of space Is secured by radishes and lettuce Economy of space is secured se-cured by having cucumbers and cantaloupes run around in the corn and by digging the potatoes early and plnnting peas on July 30 in their place. The cucumbers do well In the partial shade of tho corn, the cornstalks are cut off before be-fore the cantaloupes are fully ripe, and the late pens bore this year 'way into November. A clothes line is strum: high over the low-growing low-growing potatoes and peas so that the primary purpose of a backyard Is not Interfered with. Here are some of the results of that garden gar-den It's owner has a family of seven and the garden kept them this year in potatoes from July 1 to October 1. The 102 hills of corn rave them 418 ears, and the straggling cucumber vines gave them 583 'cukes' exclusive of manv little ones used in picklinc. There were, besides, cantaloupes until October 15, onions, lettuce, and carrots enough to distend pleasantly seven stomachs all summer. For corn the owner plants both Early Minnesota and Peep of Day. The first has the advantage of having no worms, but grows S or 9 feet high and hence makes too much shade, while the second matures early and grows only 5 feet high." Tc T rt Vin i V on m - i Art 1 t t-, - Buasive to start a garden digging campaign cam-paign among the people of Ogden as soon as the weather man sees fit to put the earth in a diggable condition? Yes. to your question But what part will our city commissioners play in this garden-making A citizen on Twenty-seventh street called over the telephone this morning and in substance, sub-stance, said: "I am afraid our city commission er are too thoroughly imbued with the idea of wringing money from the home-owner, to allow this garden-making garden-making and home beautifying to proceed. pro-ceed. Last year an old man, with rare genius, turned an unsightly lot into a'flower garden WTien the city dads heard of this, they pounced upon the tiller of the soil, demanding to know why he had used city water. Then an empty lot on the bench, overgrown with weeds, was converted into a vegetable patch, and made attractive, when the city officials levied an assessment as-sessment of $13 for water" Now, if the city commissioners are to charge to the limit for water, the entire scheme of making the city more attractive by cultivating the idle ground, will fall flat. Not long ago, the city commissioners commission-ers had a resurvey of the water consumption con-sumption of the homes made, which was proper. Then they proceeded to draw from the homes a larger revenue reve-nue for water rentals, instead of cutting cut-ting down the rate to meet the increased in-creased number of taps and yards of lawns which were discovered. A policy pol-icy of that kind is constantly discouraging dis-couraging to those who strive to make their places more attractive, because real home-building in Ogden is penalized penal-ized by our city fathers. The one thought seems to be: Can we squeeze the homes for another an-other dollar? |