A LITTLE LAND 175 



AND A LIVING 



once. If you can't find that out, you will be 

 like the " plain farmer," overworked and under- 

 paid. 



It does not usually pay at present, however, 

 to work an acre to its full capacity; it hardly 

 ever pays if you have to hire your labor, except 

 for the merely mechanical part such as plowing. 

 If there is plenty of cheap labor at hand you can 

 exploit that; if not, you had better exploit only 

 the land. 



Large capital is not needed. Near every large 

 city you will find market gardeners worth ten 

 to fifty thousand dollars who started with little 

 or no money. The uneducated Slavs, Hunga- 

 rians and Wallachians are taking up the eastern 

 farms long since abandoned to the mort- 

 gagees, and though they are not the most avail- 

 able lands that intelligence can get, the farm- 

 ers are getting rich by cultivating them inten- 

 sively. 



A market garden is merely a big kitchen gar- 

 den to supply the public as well as your family. 

 For success or for profit, land near markets and 

 transportation, manure, hot beds, crates, wagons 



