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do in the Island of Jersey, but for 200 cows, and more if necessary. 

 They (the gardeners there) have created a totally new agriculture. 

 They smile when we boast about the rotation system having per- 

 mitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops 

 every three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine 

 crops from the very same plot of land during the twelve months. 

 They do not understand our talk about good and bad soils, because 

 they make the soil themselves. They aim at cropping not five or 

 six tons of green grass on the acre, as we do, but from fifty to one 

 hundred tons of various vegetables on the same space; not $25 

 worth of hay, but $500 worth of vegetables of the plainest description, 

 cabbage and carrots. That is where agriculture is going now." 



Prince Kropotkin adds: "In the hands of men, there are no 

 unfertile soils; that the most fertile soils are not in the prairies of 

 America, nor in the Russian steppes; that they are in the peat-bogs 

 of Ireland, on the sand-downs of the northern seacoast, on the craggy 

 mountains of the Rhine, where they have been made by man's 

 hands." 



A French scientist once longed for two degrees less of latitude 

 that, among other things, he could have the luxuries of the season. 

 The market gardener in the neighborhood of Paris has practically 

 eliminated the matter of climate. In fact, he defies climate. By 

 his wall culture, glass houses, cold frames, etc., he has made a rich 

 southern garden from which he supplies the City of Paris "with 

 mountains of grapes and fruit, in any season, and in spring he in- 

 undates and perfumes it with flowers" — in addition to an abun- 

 dance of plain vegetables. In no city are the products of the garden 

 and greenhouse cheaper or better. 



Intensive Agriculture at Home. 



But we need not go to France or Holland to find intensive farming. 

 Within twenty miles of Horticultural Hall in Boston, we are in a 

 measure duplicating the result about Paris, perhaps not so inten- 

 sively, because market conditions do not require it, but certainly 

 quite as scientifically and profitably. We have our Rawsons, 

 Wheelers, Sims, W^}Tnans, and Pierces, and hundreds of others 



