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AND A LIVING 



You've read many advertisements of fortunes 

 to be made in tropical plantations, yet the yields 

 advertised as marvellous are only $500 to $1200 

 per acre. Many market gardeners and nursery- 

 men near our great cities can beat that. Don't 

 take chances in a wilderness when you can do bet- 

 ter at home. 



Philadelphia market gardeners pay $25 to $50 

 an acre rent for five to forty acres each. Land as 

 fertile can be bought for less than this, but they 

 are right at the market and can sell their produce 

 direct. Manure costs nothing and they can get 

 the contents of privy wells delivered on their 

 farms free; trolleys and telephones are at their 

 service and they market two to three crops a year. 

 They employ several men for each acre. They 

 study to find, not what most people grow, but 

 what crops will bring the most profits. 



In his "Book of Vegetables and Garden 

 Herbs " Allen French says that Jerusalem arti- 

 chokes* are more profitable than potatoes and 



Farmer's Bulletin No. 92, page 21, 1899, tells of an experi- 

 ment made by the D ^urtment of Agriculture in feeding pigs 

 upon artichokes at the Oregcn station. A portion of the plot wa 



