860 Report upon the Mai-ket-Garden, and 
Mr. Glenny's Marhet-c/arden Farm. 
This is another good specimen of a market-garden farm, 
and is illustrative of a judicious and liberal outlay of capital, 
and of skill in arranging the sequences of crops, and in 
carrying out the details in connection with their thorough 
cultivation. The extent of Mr. Glenny's holding is 208 acres, 
consisting almost entirely of arable land. It may be thought 
that the management of 208 acres would not greatly exercise a 
man's brains, nor require particular judgment and knowledge ; 
but this opinion would not be held for one moment by any one 
who realised the amount of forethought necessary to plan the 
rotation of crops of vegetables in alternation with corn, the 
close, careful supervision requisite to ensure the best possible 
return, and the amount of capital involved. 
To begin with, the annual average cost of manual labour 
is 2300/., or IIZ. 45, per acre, per annum. Rent ranges between 
3/. and 3Z. lOs., and rates, tithes, and taxes amount to from 
IZ. 5s. to 1/. 7s. per acre. Putting all expenses together, the 
total cost per acre is about 25/. per annum. It will be observed 
that this is not so high as in the case of market-gardens, nor as 
in that of South Hall Market-garden Farm, in competition with 
Mr. Glenny's entry, and the explanation of this is that more 
wheat and potatoes are growing upon the latter, and the part 
that lies nearly a mile from the homestead is farmed more 
as ordinary farm land. The fact that the cost of manure per 
acre over the whole farm was under 21. lOs. per acre confirms 
this. 
The soil is a clay or loamy clay of medium quality, upon the 
London Clay formation, and works fairly well. It is from 3 to 4 
feet in thickness, and rests upon a gravelly subsoil. Geo- 
graphically, it lies in three divisions — one near Mr. Glenny's 
house and homestead, in the town of Barking ; another a mile 
away to the north-east ; and the third half a mile south of Barking. 
This last portion of the land is devoted chiefly to the production 
of those vegetables usually grown by market-gardeners. That 
lying at a little distance from the homestead is cropped Avith 
corn to some extent, in alternation with vegetables ; while upon 
the most distant division, wheat, oats, potatoes, and mangels 
are the main productions. For example, the usual rotation here 
is wheat, oats, potatoes or mangels, with a good dressing of 
London manure for the potatoes. Upon the land nearest home, 
cabbages, savoys, parsnips, and potatoes are taken, or four crops 
in three years, for which two dressings of London manure arc 
given. As Mr. Glenny pointed out, the rotations upon these 
three divisions are liable to frequent variations consequent upon 
