Market Gardening and Truck Farming. — ig 



getting left in this race. This requires the exercise of thought, 

 study — in short of brains as well as of muscle. Excellence will 

 have its reward ; but he who neglects a single point, who allows 

 himself to be excelled by others, is not likely to receive a prize. 

 Special vegetable crops are often grown on a large scale in 

 localities especially adapted to their cultivation, or having special 

 market facilities for such crops. So we have the celery fields of 

 Kalamazoo, Mich., the onion patches of Wethersfield, Conn., and 

 Danvers, Mass., and other places, the cauliflower gardens of Long 

 Island, the tomato fields of New Jersey, the melon patches of 

 Virginia, etc. To produce is often much easier than to sell the 

 product at a profit, and it is not safe to engage in a business of 

 this kind on an extensive scale, or invest much money in it, 

 unless a local demand is assured for the produced articles. 

 Wagon and carloads of good vegetables are yearly thrown away 

 for want of chance to sell them in time at an acceptable price. 

 Where the enterprise is carried on in colonies, however, there is 

 always a local market ; for the centre of production is also the 

 centre of demand. 



