Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-22
Some Things You Want to Know
Making a Garden

~ -EarlHulnE time 70 him w1u
mHEsa a business af urminn and u him
vino depends fr has livelihood uuun the
prDdurs OF a truck garden. the advent MI
spring may mean nothing mura tnnn rnn
1ueniuE az a business SEASON. Eur az suun
ume or other the ancestors OF all Of uH
have allied me aeids and when the winter
ursuEs ard the grass beEins "a SHOW green
and the Uass bud then our Inheritance
maAes ITSELF felt m ue 8lnud Consequently
everybody wants m make a garden and c1e
mora Impossible tiis Tear me greater ls
d1a deHira- The dEailer tn city Garz sees
only the Joy and tIe rumanca OF Uug-ng In
c1e smelly Earth and planting .ha ssesdH
which promise So many duinrv dishes IN nv
bv AMI by Those persons ACTUALLY near m
the soil. especially vuung American gem
Eemen over m and under u6 years ola.
living Ian rural communities. taxa a ar
6arenr view Of the iruaEon. To them
making q garden means simply unaruus
and disnErssAhia toni. interfering with the
serious business OF he. which lB. Of course.
the playing Of base hail
But nfB Ysl-. mara rnau ever before In
tle United States uaa busiuH# Of massnu
a garden has a most seriuus aspect one OF
us visible results OF tina present era OF
hiuh prices OF food is The stsudv Increase
In tina number OF city people VINO are INV
ing to the suburbs Our the purpose OF own
ing a garden which viii nlrutan 4 rnndiv
pruuur1uu OF the h1od I'd be consumed
UPON the family table. The public scluol
garden and t1s vacant lot zrm auva given
a great humber at city girls and bows
s1u1s practical training IN gardening and
uley can malaEa the Htrls suhurnan home
plat while the head az the house is az work
IN rns city. r1erany materially reliucing the
an1uut OF the Euucery BilL.
Var1table miracles OF production have
been wr1uE1r By suburbunita gardeners.
One OK r1a muHr attractive suuries Of rniH
Kind iH that OF uvo buys VINO wera the
SONS OF a minister He was the pasfur Of
a puvsrv-Eczui1an congrega1un. anu his
sala-v was so small TINT IL had 70 be SUD
pienenred IN sumo way The boys wsrs
youngsters Of that age when base bail On
the back Iur is t1e cnier summer interest.
bur t1ey were made o. the stuff tnar gave
them a desire 10 be useful IN the solution
uf the prubiems financial Glar Engaged the
mind Of their clerical ntler SO tliey per
sliaded MIN To vaclta the manse anu ullEs
a 1.-THE house and garden plot whicn naursd
far SD a year They had no Nurse. wagon
nor plnw. 80 tlev exchanged their 0vu
labor. when II cnuld be spared rom their
track patches. for the use Of these things
They planted one acre IN auCumberz. hall
an acre each in cabhagss melons. POTATOES
and popcorn and rlrae-fnUrths OF ar aGrs
in sweet corn. with an acre anu a quarter
IN other truck. They sold the cucumber,
our uz5. the cabbage for 60. t1s melons FOR
sS r1e sweet corn for SO, and tina urleI
crops in proportion. GB in al. Meanwhile
tla fatler was 50 delighted with tia sturdy
tudr1s1rv of his two half-guowu boys rlHr 4
couunaracrEd the evil effects OF worry uudei
the weight af financial cares and tas
family was rasturad 10 health and happi
ness.
In another instance a Detroit man whC
mad r1fne=d mis- health and broken mis- Tor
tune in an HI-stI--ed country newspaper
venture. as a last resort tuuk G1args OF a.
old nursery thar WIS, almost as poverty
stricken as ne WAS HSs snuBe assets con
sisted OF a limited aznuEut Of h0ussInid nIr
uit1re. one hoe uIs shnVei. two forks.
horse and buggy wtrbsaa cIasrsI mnr1Ezgl
bizcksr IN T. and &f18 invested IN hRhl
girl securities With less bhan half an acn
tor garden purposes ne raised H& worth o
u~rudncn. 80 ~stril1ngiE successful was tn
little venture that IL brought 4 turn IN tn
tide OF ais aGaafrz The agricultural pres
-ut hold NJ the STORY, and now ne and nj
vita ara earning as muEh writing nur tn
farm papers as rley azs from rIHir gardens
which have grown To many times the SIX
Ut me arigiua1 venture And Il was all dom
On a little pinr no IarEer rlAz1 a vacu1t 10
I'd be FOUND almost anvwhsrs in a city
An experiences nesting Of people VINO hHvl
tired suburhan sardening on the suburban
ra scale is fiI OF interest One lady re
ports that sine kept an acuurIre accuunr o
the time raauirsd 70 dn her marxanng an,
af the ume she spent in her garden are
she had beg1u 10 grow her own Vegetables
She found she could keep her garden il
fine trim in the same time that she has
susur Enfng u1 mHrIsE Another woman
was unabls 10 swing an %0rdiuHrg hoe il
uer little garden az forty feet square, -
shs used an old butcher kntfa- She dec-ars
INIT tx greatly benefited her health arr
helued her pucIEsrhnGk AZ the same time
y one utle boy plHnued a melon pErch u
sandy soil. ami became a vary Grgesus IL
&. the hov-Worid as a result
The gardening OF rudnT Is nor the sa-ui