30 The Principles of Vegetable- Gardening 



Estimate for 'buildings, tools and equipments to operate a market- 

 garden of ten acres near a large city in New England 



Dwelling house . $1,000 00 



Barn and outbuildings 1,000 00 



Three horses 200 00 



Harnesses 100 00 



Wagons and cart 400 00 



Tools, machines, etc 300 00 



200 hotbed sashes 220 00 



Lumber for fences, frames, shutters, etc. . . . 300 00 



200 feet of hose 25 00 



$3,545 00 



Running Expenses 



Seeds $100 00 



Manures and fertilizers 500 00 



Help, 3 men 8 months 800 00 " 



Incidentals 200 00 



$1,600 00 



$5,145 00 



A. Jefferies, Norfolk, Va., makes the following estimates of 

 the necessary capital to purchase and work a ten- acre truck farm: 



"Ten acres within say about four miles of Norfolk cannot be 

 counted at less than $1,000. In fact, ten acres with a comfortable 

 house can not be had for less than $1,600. The cost of one good 

 horse (two would be better) and spring wagon, cart, plows, culti- 

 vators and harrows, $200 ; seeds, fertilizer and manure (all would 

 have to be bought the first year), say $250; a cow, two pigs, and 

 fifty hens, $60. From the ten acres one should sell the first year, 

 $1,000 worth of farm products. The second year he should sell 

 at least $2,000. The years following, this sum could be increased 

 by intensive farming, such as should go with Hen acres enough,' 

 up to $500 per acre, in case the brain was used to fertilize with — 

 as there is no fertilizer equal to brains. We have cases in which 

 $2,000 has been received from sales in one year from one acre, 



