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TIME REQUIRED 



and tools are needed. You can raise vegetables 

 in variety and quantity sufficient to justify giv- 

 ing all your time to it. 



So farmers, tired of small profits and hard 

 work, should get away from staple crops to 

 specialties. They will need only a few addi- 

 tional tools and fertilizers. A cash capital of 

 $20 to $25 an acre would be enough for them, 

 where a novice would need $80 to $100 an acre. 

 A beginner in South Jersey on a five acre truck 

 patch would need $500 to start and run till his 

 sales of truck started. In Florida $95 an acre, 

 in Texas $45, Illinois $70, around Norfolk, Vir- 

 ginia, $75 to $125, and in Long Island $75 to 

 $150 are needed for tools, seeds, fertilizers and 

 appliances, including rent of land, but not in- 

 cluding labor. 



Borrow the capital even if you pay high rates. 

 It is a common superstition that money is worth 

 only four or five per cent., and that all over that 

 is a premium on risk. But the banks that pay 

 that rate manage to make much more on what 

 they get. 



If you are making a thousand dollars out of 



