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much preparation-tillage. In most cities you 

 will find stable-keepers and others who will 

 give you manure or street sweepings in the 

 winter in return for hauling it away. That is 

 a great advantage to you, but if you locate your 

 garden where truckage amounts to two or three 

 dollars a load, you have offset the advantage 

 you derived from the free manure. Also, if 

 your water supply is poor, you will find it 

 difficult to carry your crops through the hot 

 weather. 



MARKET. 



You can raise a good crop from good soil 

 properly fertilized, but if you cannot market it 

 to advantage, you can't sell it at a profit. A 

 long railway haul not only injures the garden 

 truck, but it also eats up the profits. There- 

 fore, get your plot near a town or city where the 

 expense of selling is reduced to a minimum and 

 where the demand for garden products will at 

 least equal the supply. 



So the good-garden-plot tests are three : first, 

 the character of the soil, second, the location as 

 regards the market, and third, the demands of 

 that market. He who must of necessity use 

 the land where he is, will, if he uses his brains 

 as well as his hands, find his reward satisfactory, 

 even though it fall below the returns from a 

 plot with all advantages. 



