2 TYPES OF VEGETABLE GROWING 



large returns per acre. The intensity of the methods practiced 

 usually varies directly with the value of the land (Fig. 1), and 

 depends upon the size and location of the city, the distance of the 

 particular piece of land from the heart of the city, the density 

 and character of the population in the immediate locality, the 

 character of the roads leading to the market, and the adapta- 

 bility of the land for gardening purposes. From two to four crops 

 are grown on the same land each season. Very heavy and frequent 

 manuring is practiced and artificial watering sometimes employed. 



Fig. 1. — Market garden near Boston, on land worth ten thousand dollars per 

 acre. This land will eventually be sold for building lots. 



The growing of vegetables for local market has certain ad- 

 vantages over the culture of vegetables for shipment to distant 

 markets. The grower who can market his product in his immediate 

 locality avoids the expense of railroad transportation and a large 

 part of the expense for packages. He is in closer touch with the 

 market, and, except in the case of extremely perishable goods, 

 can largely regulate the quantity of products which he will market 

 upon a given day, and make the supply correspond quite closely 

 with the demand at that particular time. There is, therefore, less 

 fluctuation in prices^ and more certainty of a fair profit. This is 



