Locate near a Market

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 127, 15 April 1893, Page 4

Locate near a Market

This applies more particularly to those who intend engaging in market gardening, or small- fruit culture. For catering for the markets of cities, the fruit and vegetable gardens should be located not more than an hour or two's drive from town, or not to exceed fifteen miles from the corporation line. Most cities have suburban towns a few miles away, on each side, and land can be bought cheaper near the cities than in these villages, with the chances that the location nearest the city will proye the most desirable to cut up into lots when it becomes too valuable for fruit-growing. Near the larger place are, usually, better educational facilities, churches, etc. Marketing is heavy work, and evory mile farther away from market in a loss of time, in the wear and tear of vehicles and horses of at teast two pounds per acre per year. For a good investment, other things being equal, it is better to pay ten pounds more per acre for land three miles from the corporation than for the same space four miles away. Usually there ie not that difference asked, but for the business named, more than that amount actually exists in extra expense.