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LESSONS IX AGRICULTURE 



On our forty-acre farm \ve are not specializing in truck 

 gardening, and we shall have little for the market per- 

 haps, but our tables will be. abundantly supplied with 

 new and fresh vegetables. 



Profit in truck crops. Vegetables grown for market 

 are called truck crops. Many farmers in all sections 

 of the country are finding "truck farming" more profit- 

 able than any other. Truck gardening combines well 



FIG. 91. ONION HARVEST 



with general farming, for it may bring money returns 

 before and after the standard farm crops mature. To- 

 matoes, cabbage, strawberries, cantaloupes, onions, en- 

 dive, beans, sweet corn, asparagus, peas, and beets have 

 all been found profitable, and there should be larger 

 developments in the trucking business in the future. 



General requirements. In order to obtain the 

 earliest vegetables, and thus realize most profit in the 





