This antiquarian book comprises a comprehensive guide to general
vegetable crop production, with information on the methods of growing,
preserving, and protecting vegetable crops. Complete with simple,
step-by-step instruction, information on soil types, and a plethora of
helpful illustrations, this is a text that will be of much value to the
farmer or market gardener, and is not to be missed by discerning
collectors of such literature. The chapters of this text include:
'Vegetable Cropping Systems', 'Vegetable Forcing', 'Producing for
Profit', 'Market Gardens', 'Truck Farms', 'Cash Crops', 'Kitchen
Gardens', 'Specializing Vegetable Farming', 'Soils for Vegetable Crops',
'Brown and Sandy Loams', 'Red Soils', 'Much of Peat Soils', 'Black
Soils', etcetera. We are proud to republish this book, now in an
affordable modern edition complete with a new introduction on farming.