A COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW. 99 



A market gardener is obliged to purchase his manure, 

 to pay labor, rent, and taxes ; he has no valuable use for 

 his waste or weeds ; the worms and slugs are destructive 

 to his crops, and in dry weather he is either obliged to 

 incur great expenses for watering, or sustain the destruc- 

 tion of his plants. 



Poultry Breeding and Vegetable Growing. 



Poultry breeding and vegetable growing ought, there- 

 fore, to be carried on conjointly, as the waste, weeds, 

 inferior vegetables, worms, and slugs are valuable food 

 for poultry ; and the profit derived from choice vegetables 

 ought to pay for the poultry's keep ; under any circum- 

 stances this plan cannot be considered mere theory, as it 

 must be obvious that where both branches are profitable 

 separately, they must be still more so carried on conjointly 

 and contiguously 



Estimate of Revenue, and Expenses 



For the Tear beginning July i, 1865, and ending 

 June I,' 1866. 



Expenses. 



£ s. d. 

 Cost of Buildings * 500 o o 



Cost of Plant and Materials 30b o o 



Cost of Stock' as per annexed Details . . . . 125 00 



Food and Working Expenses . . . . . 889 10 o 



Total . £1,814 10 o 



* As at present projected, the building -will be three hundred 

 feet long, and contain fifty homes for fowls, and fifty for chickens ; 

 every home will consist of two rooms, one open and one closed, 

 each twelve feet long and three feet wide. 



