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place of horse or steam power. It pays a land- 

 lord to do something extra to induce the market 

 gardener to cultivate the rough fields of his 

 estates ; and not only does the Evesham 

 gardener clean and improve the land, but, what 

 is more gratifying to the owner, he pays a 

 higher rent. 



Reasonably enough one may ask, AVhy do 

 not the large farmers convert their stock 

 and corn farms into market gardens ? This 

 question I put to a successful market gardener 

 who himself engaged labour. It is a question 

 of capital, he answered. Very few farmers 

 have more than a sufficient working capital 

 to carry them over from INIichaelmas to 

 Michaelmas ; and to embark on intensive 

 culture means not only buying some thousands 

 of fruit-trees and plants, and many hundreds of 

 tons of manure, but — and this they would feel 

 much more — also the finding of ready money 

 every Saturday night for the extra hands 

 employed. 



Yet I did find one or two farmers who had 

 embarked upon market gardening in the 

 neighbourhood, though the market gardening- 

 was carried on in addition to the stock and corn 

 raising. That the poor labourer should be in 



