nty feet will produce enough fresh vegetables for a small family.
Corn, melons, cucumbers, and potatoes and other crops which require a
large area should not be grown in a garden of this size. Half an acre
properly cultivated with a careful crop rotation may easily produce $100
worth of various garden crops in a year.

Plums That We Already Have and Plums That Are on the Way.

_The Brown Rot (Monilia) a Controlling Factor._

DEWAIN COOK, FRUIT GROWER, JEFFERS.

By the term "plums we already have" for the purpose of this paper we
shall include only those varieties that have given general satisfaction
over a large territory and for long term of years, and in the writer's
opinion every one of such varieties are of full blooded, pure Americana
origin.

The DeSoto takes the lead of them all. It undoubtedly has more good
points to its credit than any other plum we have ever grown. The Wyant
and the freestone Wolf are considered as being the next two most popular
varieties. These were all wild varieties, found growing in the woods of
Wisconsin and Iowa many years ago.

There are a few other Americana varieties that are nearly as good as are
some of those enumerated, but at present we shall not attempt to name
them. There are many otherwise fine varieties that are not included in
this list of plums we already have, but because of a certain weakness of
the blossom they require to be intermingled with other varieties, or the
blossoms do not fertilize properly. They only bear well when conditions
are very favorable. We class such varieties as being not productive
enough.

Many attempts, with more or less--generally less--success have been made
to improve our native plums through the growing of seedlings. Mr. H.A.
Terry, of Crescent, Iowa, has done more of such work in his day than any
other one man. His method was to plant the Americana kinds, like the
DeSoto, alongside of varieties of the Hortulana type, like the Miner,
then growing seedlings from the best plums thus grown. From such cross
bred seedlings Mr. Terry originated and introduced a great many very
fine varieties. But where are they today? The Hawkeye and the Terry are
about the only ones the general public knows very much about. I will
venture this statement, that as far as I know there is no variety of
native plum in which there is an intermingling of Hortulana or Chickasaw
type that has proven productive enough to be generally profitable.

The Surpris