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with the small returns on his labor but he didn’t seem to be able to find a way
out of his difficulties. One evening as he stood looking out over his farm
pondering how his customers and his crops could be brought together in a
more lucrative manner, he hit upon the idea of organizing a group of people
and planting their gardens for them. His family at first thought the idea
impossible, but he went ahead with building up his club and soon he had
organized a group of one hundred members.

Each member may select the vegetables he wants—peas, sweet corn, carrots,
radishes, lettuce, and other vegetables—and the truck farmer plants them on
his place. The charge for planting, cultivating and fertilizing the vegetables is
$1.00 a row. The members have the pleasure of driving out to the farm
whenever they wish to select and gather their own vegetables. Nine times out
of ten, when they depart with their cars filled with vegetables, they have
some honey, butter, or eggs packed away in the car, too. The farmer is clever
enough not only to get them to come to him for their vegetables, but while
they are on the spot, he sells them some of the products from which he gets a
good cash income.

Planning “Little Dinners” for Restaurants

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ELEN EWING , living in the city of Chicago, was just one of the many
thousands of women rated as good cooks. Not long ago she became
acquainted with the wife of a restaurant owner, who one day remarked about
the difference in home and restaurant cooking. “If someone could only get
my husband to make up a more varied menu,” said this friend, “he would
probably be able to keep his customers. So many people stop coming because
they say that the menu is monotonous.” Later, upon hearing about a
successful restaurant operator in California, who attributed his success to the
great variety of dishes he served, Miss Ewing decided to look into the subject
of menus.

“After going around to many restaurants and examining the menus, I
discovered that restaurant men wanted to be relieved from making up their