CHAPTER VI. 

 DISPOSAL OF PRODUCE. 



Divisions into which the Business may be Separated Growing for 

 Market Advantages of Specialization Glutted Markets More 

 Markets Needed Growing for Private Trade Regular Supplies and 

 Numerous Varieties Essential Increased Cost of Production but 

 Better Returns and Steady Market Limited Choice in Selection of 

 Situation Co-operation Direct Supply. 



HAVING secured a suitable and well-situated holding, the 

 next step is to decide upon the particular branch of 

 market gardening to be undertaken, and this matter requires 

 much thought and careful calculation before a decision is 

 come to. 



There are two distinct divisions into which the business 

 of market gardening may be separated that of growing 

 produce for sale in public markets and that of growing it for 

 sale in particular or special markets. 



In growing for public markets the crops from any particular 

 place are limited in number, and are individually much larger 

 in extent than when grown for private trade, the aim being to 

 produce at stated times large supplies of those things for 

 which the land is best adapted or for which the situation is 

 most convenient. In many districts predominating crops are 

 a very noticeable feature, and this is also the case with 

 many individual market gardens worked on a large scale 

 certain main lines are made a specialty, and this method is 

 found to be the most profitable. Crops in which bulk is small 

 in relation to value, or those which need not be put on the 

 market immediately they have matured, are frequently grown 

 in favourable situations remote from the markets, providing 

 there is convenient access by railway, but most ordinary 

 green vegetables are grown within a comparatively few miles 

 of the greatest centres of population, where labour is plentiful, 

 manure can be got on the ground cheaply, and the produce is 



