HOW TO BE RICH WITH A LITTLE LAND. 



Caleb has two or three acres of garden and 

 forty times as much in farm ; but his garden 

 grows larger every year, and his farm grows 

 smaller. He keeps more help than anybody 

 else along that road ; he has more work. His 

 horses are round and sleek ; they seem to 

 enjoy life. Caleb says the only difference is, 

 between him and his neighbors, they are 

 farmers and he is a gardener. I say, he grows 

 what he can sell to advantage, and grows it so 

 that he *can. And this is my notion of How 

 to be Rich with a Little Land. 



They are all poor farmers ; but five or six 

 acres of vegetables are worth a hundred of 

 wheat. — depends on the vegetables. What 

 do they depend on ? 



Caleb buys his seeds of a seedsman. He 

 would no more plant poor seeds than raise a 

 colt from a^ scrawny mare. This accounts for 

 his taking those prizes. His tomatoes, whether 

 a cherry-size, plum-size, pear-size, or apple, are 

 solid and rich in the pulp, of thin, tough skin, 

 rotund, and prolific. Tomatoes of ten years ago 

 were tough and watery, awkward to peel, and 

 not nearly so clear and fair as Caleb's. He 

 buys his seeds of a seedsman. 



There are, however, two sorts of seeds and 

 seedsmen. Take cabbao^e, for instance. You 



