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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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gathering his own food with his ownhands from the soil, and old MotherEarth gave him the appetite that she canbestow upon her children! During the season we two put inabout fourteen full days work in plant-ing, transplanting, cultivating, andweeding. This is in addition to theteam work in the spring. During hay-ing time the garden on a one-man farmcan have little attention. It is because we love the garden asa whole that even one injured plantcalls out for care. When the big littleboy comes up and tells me that two ofthe cabbages are withering, I go downand replace them. Or when he tells methat a tomato plant has blown over, Itie it up that nothing may mar the lux-uriant perfection of the whole. Because the garden is small enoughfor us to know it intimately and till itthoroughly, our work there quicklybrought us rich returns. Not alone allthe vegetables we could eat throughoutthe year, and many to give away, havewe harvested from our garden, but alsothat personal acquaintance with the
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THE REDWINGS, WITH LIQUID NOTES, BID US BEGIN THE WORKING OF THESOIL LONG BEFORE THE EARTH IS WARM ENOUGH TO SPROUT SEEDS. needs of the plants, that intangiblesomething that makes them grow. In the fall the Rebel and I and thelittle boys harvest the crop of vegetablesfor winter. Pumpkins and squash forholiday pies and jack-o-lanterns, beets,carrots, cabbages, and many other keep-ing kinds are put away in the cellar, sothat all through the winter we eat ofthe summer sunshine stored away. Beyond the garden we give a halfacre to potatoes and baking beans. Thesewe plant in three-foot rows like cornand cultivate by horse-power. Fromthese we gather, in a good season, morethan we can eat in a year. Closely linked to the garden is thestory of our wheat. For years welooked longingly back to the days of ourgrandfathers, when they raised, not 22 THE OUTING MAGAZINE only their roughage, but flour andmeal, too. We shall not rest until wedo the same. We have grown the cornand oats our animals need,

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