44 INTENSIVE FARMING 



A successful frame grower's area appears to 

 be limited to about three acres. With this 

 area and two thousand sash, an adequate water 

 supply, and plenty of manure two or three 

 car loads per acre annually it is possible to 

 secure satisfactory results provided the project 

 is launched under favorable soil and climatic 

 conditions and the man is endowed with am- 

 bition and good sense. Intensive work of this 

 kind will prove one of the quickest roads to 

 ruin for the careless or indifferent cultivator. 

 The investment is large and the risks involved 

 are exceeded only by those of the greenhouse 

 operator. There is, therefore, no provision 

 for errors. A carefully planned and managed 

 frame yard will, however, produce a yearly 

 gross return of from $2,000.00 to $3,000.00 

 per acre. 



The returns will vary greatly from year to 

 year, but in the main they will be satisfactory. 

 I have known large yards to yield a $1,000.00 

 crop of lettuce in the autumn, another equally 

 valuable crop of lettuce in the spring, and a 

 $300.00 crop of beans following the spring let- 

 tuce and a crop of cow peas during the summer. 

 In another case lettuce returned $1,000.00 per 

 acre in the autumn, a like return in the early 

 spring, and this crop was followed by trans- 



