"Motto" To Make the best better, tomato club booklet

Motto To make the best bette

History of Garden It did not take me long to decide to join the Club for I know I could be helped if I joined it. I wanted to learn how to grow vegetables and cam them My garden is in the shap of a square situated in a large bottom. My Father sub-soiled the land in January then in April he ploughed and horrowed it again until the soil was fine and loose. I did not use any kind

2. of fertilize on my Garden. When Igot ready to make my seed bed I burned a pill of brush and then dug it up and got all of the clods and roots out of it, I watered the bed every day. When the plants got large enough to set out I got my father to lay off the rows putting them at the distance of three and half feet. Had my father to plough

3 my Garden ever other week and I hoed them once a week. I had no trouble with insects, my tomatoes rotted, did not use anything to keep them from rotting I had (struck out 'a') corn and bean's on mytenth of an acre caned several can of beans I canned my tomatoes at the home of Mrs. Shufords at a large cannery it would hold about three hundred cans we had scales, knives and

4. buckets of our own. Miss Jennie Whitaker our collaborator inspected all of our work and had each can weighed. the meaning of the emblem on the label is Health heart, hand and head. In June our Club gave a box supper with a short entertainment-and made enough money to buy each girl fifty five cans. The Club girls and three of the girls brothers spent