14 LOCATION AUD SELECTION OF SOIL. 



planting the seed, cultivating and harvesting the 

 crops. Such implements as have been used, and 

 found of real value, are described or referred to 

 under their proper headings. 



LOCATION AND SELECTION OF SOIL. 



These are important points, both for the kitchen 

 and market-garden ; in regard to the latter, prox- 

 imity to the market is among tlie first considerations. 

 As a large quantity of horse-manure must be carted 

 every year from the city or town, and all kinds of 

 garden-stuff must be delivered to the commission- 

 men or hucksters, which is most economically done 

 with the producer's own team, it follows that a favor- 

 able location within a few miles of a good market 

 increases the chances of success. 



Garden vegetables, as a rule, will thrive best, 

 other things being equal, on a deep, sandy loam, with 

 an open sub-soil. Almost any character of soil, with 

 the exception of pure clay, can be brought up to a 

 high state of fertility by adopting the proper meth- 

 ods ; but, as in gardening, " the early bird catches 

 the worm," and a week's difference in the time of 

 ripening often makes a difference of from one to 

 two hundred dollars in the gross receipts from an 

 acre, the sandy loam will ha\e the advantage over a 

 heavy clay soil, even if they are equal in other re- 

 spects. 



Dkaining. — The garc"" oil should be deep, thor- 

 oughly pulverized, and lice from stagnant water. 

 Many soils are well adapted to the growth of vege- 

 tables, and require no draining. But where the 



