PREFACE. 
Farmers in the thickly populated Eastern and Middle 
States, or, in fact, east of the Mississippi River, cannot grow 
grains nor fatten beeves with the same profit as before the 
opening of the great West. Dairying still returns fair profits, 
but there is a widespread demand for cash crops adapted to 
farm culture, especially where railroads furnish quick access 
to towns and cities. 
In response to this demand, we beg to offer a short list 
of farm vegetables that can be grown with greater profit than 
grain, with hints about growing them. 
There is no real line dividing the vegetables of the market 
garden from those of the farm garden, but it may be assumed 
in a somewhat arbitrary way that those which do not yield 
at the gross rate of $250 per acre per year will not pay for 
the intense culture of high-priced land, although they will 
pay handsome profits in broad-acred operations under horse 
culture. 
Before offering a list of money crops to farmers we shall 
have a word to say in the following pages about economic 
manuring. Larger cash receipts and smaller cash expendi- 
tures will result in better bank balances. 
Johnson & Stokes. 
Philadelphia, January 1, 1898. 
