One of the most remarkable things observed in going from one section of the country to another is the different methods in use for doing the same thing. The West can teach the East many ways of economizing labor, especially in the substitution of horse for hand labor in the operation of the farm. The farmer's garden, however, is even more neglected in the West than at the East, and is usually made upon the same plan or omitted altogether. What there is about onions and lettuce and beets that require them to be grown in rows six feet long upon little beds three inches high in a yard with a picket fence around it, is more than I could ever understand. Professional gardeners have long since discovered common sense methods of growing these crops, but the majority of farmers have given the subject little thought and continue to make their gardens or allow their women to make them in the way their fathers did who came from England, where land is dear and men are cheap and time no object. It makes me sick to see a woman wading around among the weeds in a garden patch looking for a mess of something for dinner, while just over the fence is a 40-acre field of corn with not a weed in sight.

Why not take away the fence, and let the rows of vegetables continue on from the rows of corn ? The garden then will be better cared for. We have tried the English garden long enough; let us have an American garden for American farmers. A. A. Crozier.