The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-21
GAROEN PAYS EXPENSE
COT TON A MONEY CROP
EAST TENAS LADY mas SOLVED
rHE HICH COST or Nv
Nc PROBLEM.
Paid Expenses OF Family With Gar
den of Less Than one Acre and
Captured Texas Industrial
Congress Prize.

An East Texas lady. a prize win
ner IN the 1915 eardon contest OF.
the Texas Industrial Congress with
a garden a little less than an acre
in size. has written The following
letter al to the part il plays IN the
years farm work and her expert
ence with il:
II do not know how I could get
along without garden. and large
one az that. for | canned enough veg
etables last year 10 run our family
until garden stuff comes in again
this year. out of little more than
five tons of vegetables grown in my
garden. including 100 bushels OF
sweet potatoes and 81 bushels of to-
matoes. there was very little waste.
only from rain causing several
bushels Of tomatoes 20 burst and
sour. so II was necessary TO feed
them to the hogs.
eone hardly has any idea how
much produce a family can consume
in a years time. Then. too. one
cannot buy from store canned
goods equal to the hone-canncd veg
etaables and fruit a friend visited
as last fan who used to run a store.
he told me that / had at least four
hundred dollars worth of fruit and
vegetables canned and stored in my
cellar. You will see, therefore. that
L believe in living at home and
boarding AT the same place | ex-
peet to can enough vegetables and
fruit this summer to last until 1917.
Il have as many dried peas and
dried navy and butter beans as We
can use. and will probably have some
10 sell during the winter | sold
nine dollars worth Of canned gar
den produce during January, aud
will have more for sale
III people would make 1t a rule
to plant big gardens and can the
surplus stuff TO keep the family Ia
bic supplied when fresh vegetables
are no longer TO be had, and would
stop living out of paper sacks, | be-
lieve we would have a better coun-
try. Almost any farmers wife can
take small plat OF ground and
raise enough fresh vegetables on il
to supply her own home for spring,
summer. and fall. and can preserve
the surplus for winter use Then
the crops are clear money, and there
Is no store account to settle al the
end of the pear.
1--WE have been farming for five
years, and are trying 70 pay for our
home place as we 80. though it Isl
pretty hard or Us at times I will
saw just here that the prize money
/ received from the Texas Industrial
Congress was used in helping TO
pay on the place. as / had rather
have my home paid for and will
have more satisfaction in using the
money that way than in any other
way | could think Of.
Il am interesting my neighhors In
the contests. for one learns so many
things in them For instance.
person would never learn what she
Is making from her garden or poul-
try yard unless she went to keeping
accounts. as she must do in the con-
test of the Texas Industrial Con-
gress. / would not take anything
for what | learned last year, and |
shall keep account of all ! do with
my poultry and COWS in 1916 just
as I must keep account of my gar
den through being in the contest
This garden contained 1907 square
wards. and produced vegetables val
ued at S2S7.f9 during 1915. The
cost OF growing il was s35.75, and
the net profit for the vegetables
mot the fruit) was s251.44. OF
course the vegetables and fruits have
much higher value when canned.
This tract OF ground, less than an
acre in extent, provided the family
living, leaving the crops clear mon
ey. with no store account to settle
At the end OF the year" On ii was
grown the money equivalent Of six
bales OF cotton that would have re-
ouired eighteen acres OF land 10 pro-
duce at the average rate of cotton
yields. and the net profit was as
great az most farmers make from
their entire cotton crop.
The Texas Industrial Congress Of
fers $1,000 as prizes for. gardens
in 1916. and viii gladly supply de-
tailed information about all OF It's
contests, If written TO az Dallas.
GERMAN TROOPS DEFEATED
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