VEGETABLE GROWING AY NEW SOUTH WALES. 11 



It will also be necessary to make provision for working and living expenses 

 until such time as returns can be expected. Necessarily this last will vary 

 a good deal with the district, the intentions of the grower, and the con- 

 dition of the land itself ; but careful account must be taken of the item, and 

 where uncleared land has to be prepared the amount available will have to 

 be considerable, or some other occupation may have to be followed until the 

 vegetable-growing venture has advanced far enough to bring returns within 

 measurable distance. 



Of necessity the prospective grower must work out the approximate cost 

 of everything as listed above, and he would be wise also to make a liberal 

 allowance for a reserve of capital to meet unforeseen expenses of the kind that' 

 inevitably occur as an enterprise of this kind develops. 



CULTIVATING THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



Choice of a district and of land suitable to the purpose intended having 

 been made on the lines indicated in the preceding pages, the next concern of 

 the vegetable grower is the preparation of the site generally and the 

 beginning of the preliminary tillage. Some consideration will require to be 

 given at the outset to the lines on which the property is to be laid out with 



A well-cultivated crop of Cabbages. 



a view to ultimate convenience. It is quite possible so to locate the stable, 

 implement shed, packing house, hot beds, cold frames, and so forth, as to 

 make the farm unnecessarily expensive to work when it is has been fully 

 developed ; and a fairly intimate knowledge of the area is therefore desirable 

 before anything is done that may afterwards be regretted. On a small area 

 the placing of the buildings so that advantage is obtained from every 

 possible yard of good soil may become an important matter. 



