22 The Principles of Vegetable- Gardening 



If the business does not prove profitable, the less money 

 invested the better. If it turns out as anticipated, the 

 profits from it will soon put the right man in the situ- 

 ation to extend his operations. In a few years' time 

 much can be done from even a very modest start." 



If one has insufficient capital to enable him to make 

 the most from his place, it will be better for him to 

 concentrate his energies on a part of it. The remainder 

 of the place can be seeded to clover or put into other 

 green- manure crops to fit it for subsequent use; or it 

 may be used for the growing of forage for the horses 

 or mules. Market -gardening is an intensive business. 



Burnet Landreth, who has made a study of this sub- 

 ject, * makes two classes of market- gardeners — those 

 who are satisfied to live on inexpensive land far 

 removed from market, and to use what others would 

 term an incomplete line of implements, and be satisfied 

 with what nature develops in the ordinary routine of 

 their business," and those who, more progressive, 

 locate in the outskirts of great cities, consequently 

 upon high-priced land, and have everything new in 

 the way of labor-saving appliances." 



The first class of gardeners," he explains, " may be 

 termed experimental farmers, men tired of the hum- 

 drum rotation of farm processes and small profits, men 

 looking for a paying diversification of their agricul- 

 tural interests. Their expenses for appliances are not 

 great, as they have already on hand the usual stock of 

 farm tools, requiring only one or two seed drills, a 

 small addition to their cultivating implements, and 



* Market-Gardening and Farm Notes, 5. 



