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and quality, — and that is, an abundance of vegetable matter. 

 ISTot a falling leaf is burned ; not a cast-off cabbage leaf or the 

 trimmed-off foliage of a bunch of carrots is permitted to go to 

 waste ; not a return trip from the delivery of a load of produce 

 is made with an empty wagon. The wagon is invariably filled 

 with barnyard manure, no matter what the labor or cost to se- 

 cure it may be. Concentration and a liberal supply of vegeta- 

 ble matter are the main secrets of success. As an adjunct to 

 concentration comes a possibility of raising two, three and 

 even four crops to each acre, instead of the regulation one 

 crop or occasionally one and a little over, usually secured by 

 broadcasting turnip seed in a slipshod way. Hence this new 

 departure, or old, old story, according to your point of view, 

 oifers an unequalled opportunity for the young men and also 

 the young women of the United States ; unequalled not only 

 from a sentimental point of view, not alone from the point of 

 view of the man or woman who can by following the profes- 

 sion of agriculture be monarch of all surveyed, but the strictly 

 commercial or dollars-and-cents point of view ; for there is no 

 investment of any description which returns the percentage 

 of profit on the dollar invested that intensive or common-sense 

 market gardening returns. In the manufacturing trades large 

 sums of money must be locked up in buildings and machinery, 

 and a market must be obtained at heavy and unceasing annual 

 outlay ; raw material must be purchased elsewhere, and de- 

 terioration of machinery goes on with stupendous rapidity at 

 the present day. In commercial business, high rentals and 

 constant loss from unsalable stock occurs and increases each 

 year. In the agricultural profession alone can a man or 

 woman gain a livelihood, a competence, or riches, in accord- 

 ance with each individual's personal equation. The biggest 

 kind of returns are secured by very inexpensive and simple 

 utensils ; a plow, a harrow, a combination hand seeder and 

 cultivator and a wheelbarrow or two-wheeled truck are all 

 the machinery necessary to carry on a successful market 

 garden. Even harrows, drags and rollers are oftentimes home- 

 made. Two horses are far better than one, for many reasons ; 

 but one frequently is all that the intensive gardener uses. 

 Manual labor has boon boiled down from ten to one by destroy- 



