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so that an apparently cheap rent, or cheap purchase, does 

 not very materially affect the result. It is very different 

 from farming operations, where often the rent or interest 

 on purchase money amounts to nearly half the expenses. 

 The number of men employed throughout the year on 

 a market garden of ten acres, within three miles of mar- 

 ket, planted in dose crop, averages seven ; this number is 

 varied in proportion, somewhat, according to the quantity 

 of glass in use. I have generally employed more than 

 that fully a man to an acre but that was in consequence 

 of having in use more than the ordinary proportion of 

 sashes. This may seem to many an unnecessary force 

 for such a small area, but all our experience proves that 

 any attempt to work with less will be unprofitable. What 

 with the large quantity of manure indispensable, seventy- 

 five tons per acre ; the close planting of the crops, so 

 that every foot will tell ; the immense handling prepara- 

 tory for market, to be done on a double crop each season, 

 one marketed in mid-summer, another in fall and winter, 

 a large and continued amount of labor is required. On 

 lands within a short distance of market say two miles 

 two horses are sufficient ; but when double that distance, 

 three are necessary. When three animals are required it 

 is most profitable to use a team of mules to do the plow- 

 ing and heavy hauling of manure, etc., and do the mar- 

 keting by a strong, active horse. Every operation in 

 cultivating the ground is done 13y horse labor whenever 

 practicable to do so ; but it must be remembered that 

 the crops of a garden are very different from those of a 

 farm ; the land is in most cases (particularly for tho fiist 

 crops) planted so close that nothing will do to work with 

 but the hoe or hand cultivator (See Implements). 



