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plaster, lime, ashes, and other manures, as your experience and 
good sense will dictate. 
If you can lay down manure in your garden for $4 per cord, 
you will need at least $50 per acre for manure, and $150 for other 
expenses, making $200 per acre; and after you have learned how 
to spend money to the best advantage, I believe that a larger 
profit may be made by laying out $300 per acre than with less. 
But I presume by this time, you are asking if the expenses are so 
heavy, what are the profits? For the first year or two, they will 
be nothing. And if you make it pay expenses, you will do bet¬ 
ter than I have done with any land that I own. After the second 
year, if your land does not pay all of its expenses, and taxes, and 
ten per cent, on $1,000 per acre, there is something wrong some¬ 
where. I have some acres of land that did not pay expenses for 
two years, but for a number of years past have not failed to pay 
ten per cent, on at least $2,000 per acre. I expect my whole gar¬ 
den to do more than that in a short time. 
At present, I am aiming to make my land yield 1,000 bushels 
of onions per acre, and then a crop of carrots or turnips, ox 500 
bushels of early potatoes, and then some other late crop; or if in 
strawberries, 12,800 quarts or 400 bushels per acre, and other 
crops in about the same proportion. I know that these figures 
seem large, but I am steadily gaining and nearing my mark; and, 
gentlemen, if I live, I shall reach it. Do you ask, what then ? 
Well, I do not know where the next mark will be, but certainly a 
still further advance. Our best cultivators have as yet but a very 
slight idea of the capabilities of an acre of land. Do not think me 
either wild or enthusiastic upon this point. Such is not the case. 
For many years I have been satisfied of the truth of the above 
statement, and every year’s experience, and experiments, bring 
with them the arguments that convince me beyond all doubt, of 
the truth of the statement. 
But let us turn for a few moments to the question, what are the 
inducement for you to become a gardener? Do you wish to be¬ 
come a millionaire? If so, none at all. Do you wish to become 
suddenly rich ? If so, this is no business for you. Are you 
anxious for a life of indolence and inactivity? Then there is 
no place for you in the garden. But if you have the conditions 
