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an occupation not subject to the caprices of an em- 

 ployer, and not requiring her to spend her days away 

 from home. 



III. Though the ordinary Market Yegetables may 

 be grown on large farms, the fact that they seldom 

 are is significant. Cabbages, Peas, Poled Beans, 

 Tomatoes, and even Potatoes, are mainly grown on 

 small farms, as they always have been. There are 

 sections wherein no cash market for Vegetables ex- 

 ists or can be relied on ; and here they will continue 

 to be grown to the extent only of the growers' re- 

 spective needs; but wherever the prevalence of man- 

 ufactures or the neighborhood of a great city gives 

 reasonable assurance of a market, they are grown at 

 a profit per acre which is rarely realized from a 

 Grain-crop. No less than $100 per acre is often, if 

 not generally, achieved by the growers of Cabbage 

 around this city ; and this not from rich, deep 

 garden-mold, but from fair farming land, under- 

 drained, subsoiled, and liberally manured. 



The careless, slipshod farmer may do better that 

 is, he will not fail so signally in Grain cultivation ; 

 but there are few more decided or brilliant successes 

 than have been achieved within the last few years 

 within sight of this City, and wholly in the tillage of 

 small farms. 



I trust I have here said enough to show that there 

 is a legitimate and promising field for agricultural 

 enterprise and effort, other than that which contem- 



