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conveyance of produce to the railway 

 station. All having been well arranged, and 

 the work well conducted, the result was 

 thorough success. 



In a third case the holding was restricted 

 to some three or four acres of land of a medium 

 character, the object of the holder being 

 the intense cultivation of a number of market 

 garden crops which it would be requisite to 

 send to market during the season almost 

 every day. Here, again, it was important 

 to secure a supply of water from the main, 

 to provide for the conveyance of manure 

 from the town, and of produce to the 

 market. The land selected was three miles 

 from a railway station, but although the 

 holding was small, abundant manure, fre- 

 quent watering, and a regular succession 

 of suitable crops ensured an excellent 

 profit. 



We have seen that the area of a holding, as 

 well as its position, its distance from a town 

 and a station, as well as the soil, depends to 

 a large extent upon the nature of the work 

 which the holder intends to caiTy out. It 

 should be needless to say that in no case 

 should land be selected which is of too sandy, 

 gravelly, or chalky a nature. A sandy loam, 



