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ket and much longer to sell them, and there are so many things to be 

 done in the market garden during the fall that it is often desirable to 

 store such vegetables as will keep and then take them out and sell at 

 the same price that could have been received for them when stored. 



While I am a believer in storing vegetables, that man will store 

 them the most successfully who does the work well and sells at the 

 right time, and while we all like to get the top price, there are very 

 often times when less will be just as profitable. 



The man who expects to live and make a success of growing vege- 

 tables must remember that the whole country is full of farmers and 

 that many of them raise more or less truck which they bring to mar- 

 ket after haying and all along during the fall, and while this is the 

 season when more vegetables are sold than any other, there are so 

 many selling all of the hardier and more easily grown vegetables that 

 the market gardener should plan to do very little marketing of the 

 more common crops at this season, and where two crops are grown 

 during the season there will be but little to sell at this time, and while 

 one good crop usually is more profitable than two medium ones there 

 are many advantages in growing two. It is necessary to manure more 

 liberally and cultivate more and the weeds do not have the chance 

 they often do where but a single crop is grown. 



There should be some glass on every vegetable garden, that is, where 

 vegetables are raised for a business and at the present time there 

 seems to be no doubt but what if there is to be much work done in 

 winter, or any considerable amount of capital invested, that houses 

 are to be preferred to sash, but for growing vegetable plants and such 

 vegetables as radishes, lettuce, and dandelions in early spring and 

 cucumbers later, sash do very nicely. 



The construction and heating of houses has changed considerably 

 during the past ten years and while we may expect to see more or 

 less change during the next decade there are being some very nice 

 houses put up in the market garden districts. The methods of hand- 

 ling sash seem to have changed very little of later years, and so far 

 as I know there has been no satisfactory heat except manure ; 

 which is not entirely satisfactory in such a winter as this has been, 

 but from this time out there should be but little trouble in getting 

 sufficient heat, and from my own observation a few hundred dollars 

 invested in sash, providing you can get the manure for the heat rea- 

 sonable and have use for it after it is taken from the beds, will be 

 more satisfactory than the same money in a small house ; but it would 



