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Show TIPS to (jrardeners GARDENING AS HOBBY (GARDENING as a hobby can be made to pay excellent dividends. div-idends. As an example, a Missouri Mis-souri woman reports she made a net profit of $300 from her two-thirds-acre garden in a single season. sea-son. Figured at market prices, food used fresh was $230; food canned, $80; and food stored, $71. Seed and sets cost her only $20. There are two major requisites to obtaining garden profits of this kind. They are, willingness to work and the use of quality seed. It is important also to devote considerable space to multiple purpose pur-pose crops like beets, onions, and tomatoes crops that can be used in a variety of ways. Here, briefly, are the uses of principal multi-purpose crops; Onions On-ions green, as relish; mature bulbs fried, stewed, or as seasoning; season-ing; bulbs for pickle, and relish making; tops for seasoning; bulbs for storage. Tomatoes fresh f fruits for slicing or stewing, for immediate table use; for canning, or for making tomato juice, or tomato to-mato catsup; green tomatoes for frying, or for use in pickle relishes, rel-ishes, or in pie filler (like mince meat) ; yellow fruits for preserves, juice, or immediate table use. Cabbage fresh in slaw, or salad; sal-ad; cooked for table use; canned as kraut, or stored. Beets tops for greens; roots cooked fresh, canned, pickled, or stored. |