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production consists just as truly in getting it to 

 market and seeing that it gets a fair chance there, 

 as it does in buying the seed or in setting out the 

 sprouted potatoes.* How much time may be 

 spent in that part of production, depends upon 

 the individual and it is not reckoned here. We 

 calculate only the time spent in physical work, 

 not the time spent in thinking how to do the 

 work, which is more essential than money. You 

 must be willing to work and work hard with your 

 hands when necessary, but you can, after you get 

 started, hire men who will not or cannot use their 

 heads, to do most of the hard work. Corn, which 

 everyone can raise, sells for half a cent a pound ; 

 mushrooms need care and skill and bring fifty 

 cents a pound. 



Vegetables may be grown in rows between the 

 trees in a young orchard. The best beans grow 

 in orchards. Radishes, lettuce and cabbage may 

 all grow at the same time in space used for one 

 crop. 



* R. B. Greig in the Aberdeen and North of Scotland College 

 of Agriculture Bulletin (No. 3) says that experiments with 

 sprouted seed potatoes gave a gain of from one ton (say 85 

 bushels) to three tons per acre. 



