Cash Crops For The Thrifty Gardener PDF Download

An educational guide for the beginner hobby farmer about cost effectively generating cash crops. Tells you just what you want to know in just the way you want to be told. "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 expenditures will result in better bank balances." Johnson & Stokes. Philadelphia, January 1, 1898. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Making the Soil Rich CHAPTER II. Choice of Location CHAPTER III. Vegetables Suited to Farm Culture Everywhere CHAPTER IV. Vegetables Suited to Farm Culture in Some Locations CHAPTER V. Sashes and Bedding Plants CHAPTER VI. The Strawberry