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greater ; but drainage is a permanent investment, more perma- 

 nent and more certain than any other the farmer can make. 



Seventy- five to one hundred tons of manure per acre is used 

 by the regular market gardener, who raises two or three crops 

 on the land thus manured, Mr. Henderson makes the follow- 

 mg estimate of expenses and receipts per acre. 



EXPENSES. 



Labor $300, horse labor $35 $335.00 



Seventy-five tons manure 100.00 



Eent, seeds, and tools 70.00 



Cost of selling 100.00 



$605.00 



RECEIPTS. 



12,000 Early cabbages at five cents per head . . $600.00 



14,000 Lettuce at one cent per head 140,00 



30,000 Celery at two cents per head 600.00 



$1340.00 

 Leaving a profit of $735.00. 



" A crop of early beets or onions, followed by sweet herbs 

 or horseradish, would have given about the same results." 

 Three hundred dollars per acre seems a large sum for labor, 

 but it comes back with interest. One half of this amount for 

 labor and fifty tons of manure might serve for the farmer, as 

 he will not be likely to crowd the crop to such good advantage 

 as the regular gardener. 



The manure is prepared by the hogs, as follows : A manure 

 yard is laid out, dug out two feet deep, and enclosed by a board 

 fence six feet high. The green manure is thrown in pretty 

 evenly; also, refuse chips, muck, peat, sods, bone shavings, and 

 all animal and vegetable matter. Enough hogs are kept in it 

 to keep it constantly worked over, and these hogs are fed the 



