CHAPTER IV. 



LOCATION, SITUATION, AND LAYING OUT. 



Location. — Before deciding on the spot for a garden, 

 too much caution cannot be used in selecting the locality ; 

 mistakes in this matter arc often the sole cause of want 

 of success, even when all other conditions are favorable. 

 It is always better to pay a rent or interest of §50 or even 

 $100 per acre on land one or two miles from market, than 

 to take the same quality of land, 6 or 7 miles distant, for 

 nothing ; for the extra expense of teaming, procuring ma- 

 nure, and often greater difficulty in obtaining labor, far 

 more than counterbalance the difference in the rental of the 

 land. Another great object in being near the market is, 

 that one can thereby take advantage of the condition of 

 prices, which often, in perishable commodities like garden 

 produce, is very variable. It not unfrequently happens that 

 from scarcity or an unusual demand, there will be a differ- 

 ence of $25 or $30 per load, even in one day, hence if near 

 a market, larger quantities can be thrown in than if at a 

 distance, and the advantage of higher rates be taken. 



This disadvantage in distance only holds good in perish- 

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