183 MONEY AND 



TIME REQUIRED 



will be five acres of land at $250, $1250; green- 

 house, 20 x 100, $1200; hotbed, sash and mis- 

 cellaneous equipment, $500. He figures that the 

 gross income from such a plant should be from 

 $2000 to $3000 a year, or $1500 to $2000 net. 



W. W. Rawson estimates that exclusive of the 

 land and buildings it would cost $11,000 to equip 

 ten acres for the highest intensive market garden- 

 ing and require ten men in winter and twenty in 

 summer, including three greenhouses 200 x 300. 

 Therefore, don't invest in ten acres unless you 

 have ample capital. 



Where labor is scarce it is important to know 

 how much time is needed for the thorough cul- 

 tivation of each acre. 



The Boston Report of the Industrial Aid So- 

 ciety (October, 1895, p. 5, Supplement), gives 

 the average time spent on one-third of an acre 

 as "eight or nine full days, some not spending 

 over six days from the time of planting to har- 

 vesting inclusive." Call it nine, that is twenty- 

 seven days per acre. 



The estimate of Mr. J. W. Kjelgaard, New 

 York, is that with the first plowing done, with- 



