CHAPTER VI 



WHAT AN ACRE MAY PRODUCE 



WE have shown what an acre has produced. You must 

 figure out for yourself what you can make your acres pro- 

 duce and what the product can be sold for. 



All progress hi agriculture has come heretofore through 

 experiments, made mostly by uninformed and untrained men. 

 What may not be done by practical learning and applied 

 intelligence ? 



The wonderful recent advances have been made in just 

 that way. 



"The modern unproved methods in agriculture, known 

 collectively as intensive fanning, have nearly all had their 

 origin in the hands of truck farmers and market gardeners. 

 No class of the rural population is more alert hi utilizing the 

 newest researches and discoveries hi all lines of agricultural 

 science, and none keeps in closer touch with the agricultural 

 colleges and experiment stations." ("Development of the 

 Trucking Interests," by F. S. Earle.) 



Still, it is not advisable for the ordinary city dweller, how- 

 ever intelligent, without other means and without either 

 experience or study, to cast himself upon a small patch of 

 ground for a living ; but if he can give it most of his time 

 mornings and evenings, or if he sees, as many do, that he 

 will be forced out of a position, it would be well for him 

 seriously to consider intensive cultivation as a resource. 



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