The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-01-16
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DIVER 1FIED GARDENING.

How 1t Can be Carried on ut a Good
Profit
In gardening there is no one crop
that can be depended upon for profit
year after year. Some years cabbage
might pay an enormous profit, and the
next year be an utter failure for want
of demand, and SO through the entire
list Of vegetables usually grown for
market 1 have found that the most
profit arises from an assortment of
standard varieties of all kinds Of veg
etables, and to have them a week. or
ten days ahead of your neighbor, aim
ing to have the bulk sold before the
prices drop, and yet have enough to
supply your customers just as long as
they want them. l sold tomatoes for
20 cents per quart down to 20 cents
per bushel this year. Strawberries
and onions I consider as my most re-
liable crops for profit, and grow on
the intensive system after 4 crop OF
peas, beans or kale. I cover the bed
with two or four inches of half-rOtted
stable manure, and spade or plow in,
leaving it so until ready to plant,
which is just as soon as the straw
Derry runners are rooted, usually last
OF June OF first week in July; then re-
pillow and make the bed like an ash
heap, which is not much of job if
you catch it '.just right" Throw open
furrow two inches deep and as wide
on the bottom as can be done, making
rows two feet apart; set plants in the
bottom of the furrow one foot apart.
After the plants have "taken hold''.
use the ral1e's Oh hand plow set to
work from the plant; repeat as needed
until September 1. Plow open a fur
row in the middles and throw it back,
rake smooth and plant onion sets
where the furrOw was opened, push
ing the set One-half inch deep, thus
making rows twelve inches apart al
ternately. If not wanting to lose the
use of the land from July to Septem-
Der, beets, string beans, dwarf peas
radishes, ETC., may be planted as the
strawberry plants are set to be fol-
lowed after frost falls with the onion
sets. -g--s
Spring set Strawberries are man
aged in the same manner except that
radishes are soWn broadcast with let
4 tuce planted between rows of berries.
All the small fruits are very profita-
bic in connection with garden "truck,"
IL lACy are pNtulcdl Ill OuC-Ol-Cuc-WiN
places that would otherwise be vast
ed, as grapes along fences and over
buildings, peach, pear or apple trees,
along lines as live fence posts for
wires to support the grapevines; cur
rants and gooseberries between the
grapes will afford a large profit for
amount of labor required to keep in
order. VII
Last, but not least in point of profit,
are the herb bcds-parsley, sage,
thyme, sayory, lavender, rue, rose
mary, even catmint; also mint for
juleps, especially the last in cold
frames. What to plant for profit? All
che different vegetables, berries and
herbs, in quantities sufficient to sup
ply your customers every day in the
yeaE' with seasonable products. How
to make it pay? BY having the very
earliest, thus securing the best prices
and customers; the best, thus retain
ing the trade; the latest, thus having
no competition and also by being lib
eral in measure and strictly honest in
representation. 80
To secure these results the soil must
he rich and a goOd-sized greenhouse is
a convenience to be desired; also a
good supply Of water and a man not
afraid of work, even if produce is low
in price.-Harry Snyder in. Practical
Farmer. .e--7