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tern of moral elegance and generous hospitality. His neighbors who 

 once laughed at, now envy him. They begin to see that he is right and 

 they are wrong. Still, they think, the old conservatives, that they are 

 too old to mend their ways. But their children may redeem what they 

 have lost. They are beginning to buy books and take agricultural 

 papers, and the young folks are greatly interested. Thus stimulated 

 and aided, no doubt the next generation, in this neighborhood, will know 

 something of the principles which govern in that process which they are 

 daily helping to carry forward in the great laboratory of nature. 



Reader, how many farmers like Mr. Thrift have you in your neigh- 

 borhood ? Would it not be much better were there no other kinds ? 



STRAWBERRIES IK KEW IfORK., 



The Strawberry trade of New York, it is said in the New York 

 Times, is the largest of any one point in the world, and the strawberry 

 grows in all climates and is sold in all latitudes. It is estimated that 

 fifty thousand bushels of this delicious fruit were sold in New York 

 during the season of 1855, while about twelve thousand bushels were 

 sold in Philadelphia, twelve thousand in Cincinnati, and ten thousand 

 in Boston. During one week last season, more than 400.000 baskets 

 were received daily in New York. From one port in New Jersey, twenty- 

 five miles distant, was received by steamboat, on a single day, 200,000 

 baskets. The largest receipt of strawberries by railroad, on a single 

 day, was a load of 892 bushels, or 142,900 baskets, brought in by an 

 evening train on the Erie Eailroad, a few years since. 



New York City received, last year, from all sources, not less than 

 8,000,000 baskets of strawberries. The value of these, at the whole- 

 sale price of 2^ cents the basket, was $200,000, for which the consumers 

 probably paid double that sum. It is stated that five baskets are 

 required to make a auart. In the continuation of its remarks, the 

 Times says : 



" About fifteen hundred acres of choice land, in the vicinity of New 

 York, are required to supply this market with strawberries. Some 

 farmers cultivate thirty and forty acres for this purpose. The average 

 crop from an acre runs from thirty to fifty bushels. Some cultivators 

 have succeeded in gathering, occasionally, one hundred, and even one 



