THE YOUNG FARMER 



commercial orchard must, in time, supplant 

 these accidental plantings. 



ADVANTAGES OF HORTICULTURE 



The advantages of this intensive form of 

 agriculture as compared with the more 

 extensive forms discussed in Chapter XII 

 may be stated as follows : 



(1) A large gross income per acre may 

 be obtained. An investigation of truck 

 farming made some years ago indicated a 

 gross return per acre about 40 times as great 

 as that obtained on an average from all 

 forms of agriculture. 



(2) There is a large opportunity for the 

 use of skill in raising and preparing 

 products for market and an equal oppor- 

 tunity for the exercise of judgment in choos- 

 ing the best markets. 



DISADVANTAGES OF HORTICULTURE 



( i ) It requires considerable capital, par- 

 ticularly for machinery and labor. In the 

 investigation in truck farming above men- 

 tioned the capital per acre invested in land, 

 170 



