The Profitable Culture of Vegetables: For Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Smith, Thomas

9780266212393: The Profitable Culture of Vegetables: For Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0266212395 ISBN 13: 9780266212393

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The Profitable Culture of Vegetables: For Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others

But even were the Act administered with enthusiasm, pro vision of the bare land is not enough to meet the necessities of the situation, and unless something more is done progress must be very slow and uncertain. Men there are in plenty, of the most suitable type, ready and indeed anxious to change their mode of life and settle upon the land, but having little or no capital the majority are effectually debarred; of the few who by perseverance and strenuous effort are at length enabled to make the adventure, most, through ignorance of the business they have undertaken or from lack of sufficient means to bring it to a successful issue, either fail disastrously or are doomed to a life of unnecessary privation and hard unremitting toil. It appears to be overlooked that dwelling-house, out-buildings, tools and appliances, manure, and in some cases live-stock, are needed in addition to land, as well as a reserve fund to fall back upon in the event of bad seasons in the early years, and this calls for a considerable amount of capital in each case. The majority of the men most suitable for the purpose in view are comparatively poor-in the circumstances it could scarcely be otherwise - and it is useless to expect them to finance themselves. It is obvious that if the Small Holdings Act is to have any real chance of accomplishing its purpose it must not only be administered in the spirit in which it was conceived, but should be supplemented by a fund which will place such capital as is absolutely necessary within the reach of eligible men, under conditions which will provide for its re payment within a reasonable period.

Such a system is at the present time in successful operation in New Zealand, and the experience there gained will prove of the utmost value in inaugurating a similar system here, but in any case it seems a mere mockery to give poor men access to the land without at the same time giving them access to capital with which to develop it.

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