Joseph Harris tells the American Farmer that: "It would not have been a difficult matter to grow 5,000 good heads of cabbage per acre, which could readily have been sold at ten cents per head. The planting, cultivating, harvesting, burying for the winter, and marketing, would not cost over one cent per head, thus affording a profit of $450 per acre. This is five per cent. interest on $9,000 per acre. We can afford to smile at those who sneer at us for plowing our land four or five times to destroy weeds and get it into good shape for starting a good field-garden." The chief object Mr. Harris had in view was to point out how much superior good land and well cared for soil were to the ordinary slipshod methods of treating the ground.