This same method was used in making the awards for the most notable improvement in orchards, for the best corn crop and the best potato crop. As for the other prizes the committee itself acted as judges. The results here were a matter of self-evident facts. In the live stock competition each man was required to show a receipted bill for all money expended and a record of some sort for all money received. The garden competition had to be judged in a more general way, as it was observed by the committee during the entire season. I had put a good deal of time into this myself and it had been a genuine pleasure. There was hardly a family in the village who didn’t have a garden of some sort that year, for even those who didn’t intend to compete caught the contagion and planted something. I wish there had been some way of computing the saving in cash that resulted from this alone. It certainly amounted to a good many times the money which had inspired the movement. It seems almost impossible of belief that to many residents of this country village the raising of their own green stuff was a decided novelty. But such is the fact. With a man coming daily to the door, as until this season Tony and others had done, with peas, lettuce, corn, cucumbers and what not, people had bought of him as a matter of convenience. It had cost them only a little at a time and they hadn’t realized to how much the sum total amounted. I know that Ruth and I found a big difference in our household expenses once the garden began to bear. Not only this but we did away with meat almost entirely and never lived so well in our lives. In addition to what I used myself I loaded down Dick’s machine every morning with such stuff as couldn’t be put away for winter use, to be distributed among members of the gang--among families with children or those temporarily in hard luck through sickness. Moulton was certainly mistaken when he had prophesied that it would cost me more to raise than buy my own vegetables. But he hadn’t planned on any such modern methods as I and the whole village used that season. * * * * *