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.