CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS LOCATION AND SOILS 



LAND DRAINAGE IRRIGATION OF CROPS 



ESTIMATES OF COST INSTRUCTIONS 



MARKET GARDENING as a business has some 

 peculiar features in which it differs from other 

 branches of agriculture. Many people have an 

 impression that the growing of vegetables for 

 market is like any ordinary farming, and are dis- 

 posed to believe that any person who can plough, 

 hoe and dig can grow one crop as well as another. 

 Such people would find themselves sadly mistaken 

 if they should undertake the business themselves 

 and actually attempt to carry it on equipped with 

 only a general knowledge of ordinary farm 

 work. 



Market gardening is made up of details; and, 

 while each separate step may be easy of mastery 

 by those who have a natural taste for the business, 

 the whole art and a full comprehension of it can 

 be acquired only by actual experience in the 



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