PLACE OF INTENSIVE FARMING 



peaches and other fresh fruit. Chicago, 

 to give only one example, begins to receive 

 strawberries, cabbages and tomatoes from 

 the shores of the Gulf of Mexico early in 

 the year and continues to receive these 

 products, until finally they are being shipped 

 late in the summer from the shores of Lake 

 Superior. It is estimated that the change of 

 locality from which these products come, 

 travels northward at the rate of from 13 to 

 15 miles a day. 



IMPORTANT FACTORS IN INTENSIVE FARMING 



In the neighborhood of large cities, nota- 

 bly in the environs of Paris, market garden- 

 ers often produce their vegetables in made 

 soil. The local character of the soil under 

 such conditions is a matter of comparative 

 indifference, since a board floor would 

 answer every requirement as a resting place 

 for the artificial soil. The large expense 

 in preparing and constantly renewing the 

 seed bed is only economically possible, how- 

 ever, where proximity to a large city out- 

 weighs all other considerations. 



