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GARDEN YARD 
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 
dificult 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. 
