Download or read book Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Whitehead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming There also is a great and an increasing demand at home for the minor products of the land, some of which may, now be classi fied as necessities others in a degree as luxuries, because of their high prices. Fine qualities of cheese, good butter, milk, cream, eggs, chickens and poultry of all kinds, would have an extra ordinary sale if only the prices were reasonable. And there is no doubt that all these things could be produced for sale at reason able rates, and at the same time would yield a good profit if farmers would direct their minds and their energies to 1'the work. Foreign competition will not. Interfere with these industries! This game, at all events, is in the hands of the home producers. The chief drawback to the full development of this trade is the unsatisfactory present mode of distribution of nearly all kinds of farm produce, and especially of these minor kinds. In existing circumstances, the producers' get the minimum value and the consumers have to pay the maximum price. The pernicious system of salesmen and middlemen, and the routine of markets, hinder enterprise and check production. In'no cases is this so much felt as in those of vegetables and fruit, which are confined to a few centres - markets, for the' most part, utterly inadequate for anything like general distribution. Even with the system now holding, it is fully believed that the productionl of vegetables, salad plants, and fruit could be very largely extended, to the gain of the cultivators and to the infinite satisfaction of would-be consumers who live in towns, and of those who have no gardens, who constitute a vast proportion of the population. This paper, therefore, has been written at the request of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, to point out the importance and advantage of adding these special cultures to the ordinary farm crops, and to give some practical information as to the most desirable sorts of vegetables and fruits for this purpose, together with details as to the modes of cultivating them, and the circumstances of soil, climate, and situation that are required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.