A LITTLE LAND 118 



AND A LIVING 



plied. If we are to cultivate a garden or farm 

 with our brains as well as our hands, small hold- 

 ings should be selected as near to large cities as 

 possible, so that large quantities of stable manure 

 can be had cheaply. This not only greatly in- 

 creases productiveness but also warms up the 

 soil, thereby ensuring early vegetables. 



If you don't think, you will make more money 

 carrying a hod than you will cultivating an acre. 

 It is not things like onions that require the most 

 work, but things like blackberries, asparagus, 

 which require the most intelligence, that pay the 

 most. The following are average crops per year: 



Beets, 300 to 400 bushels. 

 Cabbage, 8,000 heads. 

 Carrots, 200 to 30 bushels. 



Horseradish, 2 to 5 tons (it sells for ten to fifty dollars a ton). 

 Onions, 300 to 400 bushels (but this can be doubled). 

 Potatoes, 75 to 300 bushels. 

 Rhubarb, 36,000 bunches. 

 Salsify, 200 to 300 bushels. 



(These are actual averages per acre shown in Census Bulletin 

 No. 237). 



But in averages, the crop of the man who 

 farms with his head and gets big results is " aver- 

 aged " with fifty who use neither brains nor fer- 

 tilizers. Like the school teacher who asked what 



