In order to do this, he and Mother must plan a year ahead. First the father will build a little frame, hot house against the south barn and fill the bottom of it with horse manure. Then he will go to the garden and haul enough of that good soil to add to this. After the weather warms up, about February or March, Mother will plant her cabbage and lettuce seeds. With a window pane on top of this hot house the seeds will sprout and soon the little plants will be big enough to transplant. The little plants will be transplanted at least once, before the weather is warm enough to put them out into the garden.

        Then the father will get his team of horses and hook them to the big plow so he can till the garden soil. After the harrow is dragged over the garden then the leveler is brought out. The soil will be ready for planting.

        After the potatoes are planted it is then time to plant the cabbages and head lettuce. Cabbages and lettuce will stand a bit of freezing weather, but not too much so don't get too anxious to get them out into the garden. When the mother says it is right, she will find sticks for her 10 kids, line them up along the straight rows that the father has made with the plow and instruct them how to plant the tender plants. She will tell them to pinch the two big outer leaves off the cabbages and head lettuce, poke a hole in the nice soft soil and insert the tender root into the hole. She may tell you to pinch off the very ends of the roots, which make the root sprout out better.

        After the cabbages and lettuce is planted, then the carrots will be seeded in. Beets will be planted at the same time. Then after the seedlings sprout they should be thinned so the vegetables will have a chance to grow big. After many days of irrigating the garden, with that good water that has run through the barn, a lot of weeds will grow so this is where your ten kids come in handy. Teach them the difference between a weed and the plant that you want left and hope for the best.

        About August, the vegetables will be ready to harvest and take to Park City. The evening before the trip, all the kids and the mother will gather vegetables.

        I neglected to tell you that you must always plant lots of peas, because the miners will love the fresh peas you bring them. The day before the 10 kids will pick big gunny sacks full of the peas and have them ready for the-next day.

        Everyone will be busy pulling carrots and beets and seeing that they are washed and ready by the next day. Later on in the season you will harvest the cabbages. Fresh green beans can be added to the sacks and the load is ready to go. If someone has ordered chicken or horse radish these must be prepared also. Most of the ladies will want to butcher their own chickens, it must be put in a wire cage and tied on to the side of the wagon or truck. If you have an order of horse radish, this can be a fun job for the 10 kids. You must first send your father out to dig the roots. Since you have lots of it growing on your lawn, this should be no problem. The root must then be washed and peeled. The grinder should then be attached to the kitchen table and your kids called to come and turn the crank. It will take a lot of kids taking turns at this job, because once the grinding starts the tears will flow. The fumes coming up from the grinder can clear your sinuses in a hurry and send the kids outside to get a breath of fresh air. The best place to grind the horse radish is outside, but this isn't always possible.

        The horse radish is then packed into pint jars and then filled vinegar in until it covers the root. This will preserve the horse radish and add zing!

        Then it is time for the father and boys, or girls to load the goodies into the wagon or truck. This trip will take all day, for it is almost 20 miles to Park City from the farm. After reaching the town, the boys and the father will have to go door to door to sell their produce.

        If you are making the trip soon after you have butchered a hog, the ladies will all want some of the pigs blood to make blood pudding. Your sales slips will read something like this:

Zabarti--Eggs, 3.00, Lettuce 10 cents
Mrs. Smith--Vegetables and flowers, $1.10
Mrs. Thomas--cabbage 30 cents
Ray Fley--apples, 50 cents
Novak-- Apples, 10 cents and horse radish, 50 cents

        Well, this will give you an idea how rich you will be at the end of your day, but at least you have the satisfaction of getting some nice clean vegetables to those poor miner's and their kids.

        You might decide that 50 cents for a pint of horse radish will bring tears to your eyes without the grinding. At any rate, you have kept your 10 kids out of mischief for a few hours and that should be worth something.