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dread of the labor it involves, and where all the cultivation is 

 done with spade and hoe, it is certainly no light task. But 

 where small fruit is set in rows, permitting the use of horse and 

 cultivator, there is little more labor required than in cultivating 

 an equal area of corn. If I could select a plat of ground for the 

 culture of small fruits for a family of six, I would make it forty 

 by three hundred feet, and plant in rows for convenience in work- 

 ing the horse and cultivator. In this I would set two rows of 

 blackberries five feet apart and sixty plants in the rows. Two 

 rows of strawberries three feet apart, and three feet in the row, 

 requiring two hundred plants. Leaving a space of six feet for 

 the future resetting of these plants ; I would next plant two rows 

 of raspberries five feet apart and four feet in the row, requiring 

 one hundred and fifty plants. Next a row of gooseberries five 

 feet in the row or sixty plants. And in the last row of the plat 

 I would plant thirty-five currant bushes five feet apart, 

 and twenty-five good grape vines. This would require 590 plants 

 all told, at a probable cost of ten dollars. With these plants 

 well set out and an occassional half hour's work with the 

 horse and cultivator, and an hour's work with the hoe, during 

 the growing season I would expect to furnish my family of six 

 persons with an abundance of fruit and have some to give my 

 less provident friends. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Piper — I think Mr. Hazelton is on the right track, and if 

 his ideas and plans were carried out, there would be no trouble 

 in raising an abundance of fruit for any family. 



Mr. Dunning — I think if the farmers, and people in general, 

 throughout the country, knew how easy it was to raise and care 

 for a garden of small fruits, which would supply their families 

 with an abundance, there would be a great many more gardens 

 of the kind than there are. 



Mr. Coe — I think the paper recommends plenty of ground for 

 a large family, and believe that, ordinarily, there would be 

 plenty of fruit for home consumption, and enough to pay for all 

 trouble and expense. 



THE GARDEN IN THE HOUSE. 



BY MRS. M. J. CUTLER, KANKAKEE. 



Madge and Jerry went to housekeeping. Hundreds had done 

 the same thing before them, and why should not they follow a 

 good example? True, they had little knowledge, and less expe- 



