CHAPTER II. 
CHOICE OF LOCATION. 
Almost every farm has a choice spot for a garden, some 
favored location where the soil is warm and mellow, and 
where, perhaps, shelter is afforded by hill or woodland. 
Such a spot, especially if it can be artificially irrigated, is 
capable of great things in the way of growing truck. 
The place of all others, if it can be had, is a rich meadow 
bank, on ground low enough for gravity irrigation and yet 
high enough to be out of the way of floods. Such a loca- 
tion is by no means rare. There are countless acres ful- 
filling these conditions, and every acre thus situated is capa- 
ble of yielding in vegetables twenty-fold its value as pastur- 
age. 
Such a meadow needs a few lines of underdrains and an 
irrigating ditch along the highest feasible level. Deep plow- 
ing of low land will rarely bring up the sub-soil, and, after a 
good coat of lime, the application of manure may be carried 
to almost any extent, with good results assured in advance. 
If a meadow is not available, the farm gardener will do 
the next best thing, whatever that may be, in choosing a 
place for vegetables, trusting the rainfall and depending on 
manure and good tillage for satisfactory crops. 
As to Growing. — The one point to be emphasized about 
the production of truck for market is that quick growth is 
necessary for quality, and, hence, for profits. Good soil, 
good cultivation and sufficient moisture are the essentials for 
rapid growth. 
As to Marketing — A point of prime importance for all 
