The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-29
HIGH SCHOOL BOY
HAS FINE GARDEN
r. w. KULLBERG us DOING HIS
BIT' TO INCREASE FOOD
PRODUCTION

Do you know that within less thar
a mile from the city limits Of Moscow
is a garden with 10000 fine tomato
plants just coming into bearing anc
$500 hills of cucumber vines that are
now furnishing cucumbers for homo
consumption? Few people know that
R. w. Kullberg, a high school student,
two young to enter the army as a sol
der, is probably doing as much real
good toward winning the war as any
man in the fighting lines. He is do
ing "his bit" to supply food for those
who fight as well as those who re-
main at home.
It is a sight well worth seeing, that
garden. 1t lies just east of the Gene
terry on land owned by Tom Dixon. It
contains six acres in a high state of
cultivation. That much hard work has
been required to get the ground in as
fine condition as it was when planted
and keep it in that condition until
now, goes without saying.
Mr.. Kullberg started early last
spring. He was in high school and
he worked on Saturdays at Scott
Brothers greenhouse and helped raise
tomatoes, cabbage and other garden
plants. He took 10000 of the tomato
plants and planted them in his garden.
1t took several weeks to do this and
there is considerable difference be-
tween the plants that were set out
and those planted at the last,
about three weeks time having
between the earliest and latest
but the latest plants are
now beginning to blossom, while the
earliest plants have large tomatoes,
few of them beginning to ripen. In
10 days he will have ripe tomatoes on
the Moscow market.
The tomato plants were set out just
feet and nine inches a part,
and the rows are straight as a string
and they can be cultivated with a
cultivator in any direction.
There is not a weed in the entire field
and very few hills are missing. Mr..
.~ullberg thinks he ought to get an
average of a box of tomatoes from
each vine and there are 10000 of
hem. Putting them at SO cents a
a very conservative price, would
yield, If he gets as large a crop as he
lopes for, $1,000 worth of tomatoes.
The cucumber plants are equally as
rood, as clean and as prolific. He is
low taking orders for cu%cunbers at
rom IS to 65 cents a gallon. The
lgher prices are for the very small
st cucumbers used for sweet pickles
nd the lowest price is for the large
dill pickles. He is taking orders
ow for delivery at any time desired.
The recent rains ought to be worth
undreds of dollars to Mr.. Kullberg,
or it means increased yield of all of
is vegetables. He has a lot of corr
I'd beans and other vegetables but his
iSuiiiDSlS dllu Tomatoes are the main
'op. He will have both cucumbers t
tomatoes until frost kills the vines t
nd will be able to supply the home
{
There is an educational as we'll as T
nancial lesson in this garden. This
'ung man has done nothing more r
ian any other man using the same. t
telligence and labor can do and if t
a raise 10000 tomato plants and c
BOO hills Of cucumbers profitably t
re, others can raise large amounts f
these very profitable and useful c
getables. There ought to be al L
nnery and pickle factory here to
re for the products of such gardens r
d their ought to be more gardens
this kind.