Author: Joseph Harris Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780266801177

Excerpt from Harris Rural Annual for 1891 And what is true of farming is still more emphatically true of gardening and fruit-growing. Nearly all our garden crops and fruits are artificial productions, and need something better than ordinary land and ordinary treatment. One of our neighbors, an intelligent Englishman and a careful, thorough gardener, when we were talking about the excessively wet spring and the prolonged drouth that followed it, and what a hard year it had been for gardeners, quietly remarked, in a tone that seemed to im ply that he hoped we would not tell anyone, that it had been the most profitable season that gardeners have had for many years. Prices have been good and a load of truck brought in nearly double the money obtained in more favorable seasons. And it cost no more to get the load ready and take it to market and sell it than in other years. The increased price was largely profit. It seems highly probable that the era of unreasonably low prices for farm and garden produce and fruits is past for some time to come. Farming and gardening and fruit growing has been unprofitable and consumption has caught up with production. 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.