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through the same thing again until, when Sunday comes, you will 

 need no exhortations from 3'our clergyman or any one else to induce 

 you to keep from breaking the fourth commandment. If you have 

 done your work systematically and well thus far, you will probably 

 have this one thing to comfort you during these long, weary days. 

 You will be doing something more than pa3nng your expenses, 

 and that is a great encouragement. 



At the close of the strawberry season the weeds have doubtless 

 got the start of you in some places, and they must be destroyed at 

 any cost. You must now hurry up the work of getting in your 

 second crops where it is not already done. Set cabbage until the 

 15th and not later than 20th of July. Set celery up to the 5th 

 of August. Transplant beets and rutabagas up to the same date. 

 Sow purple top flat turnip until 15th of August. This date 

 about closes the planting season unless you wish to grow a crop of 

 winter radishes. If so, sow the Chinese Rose Winter about the 1st 

 of September. They will be nice for winter use. 



Marketing crops very often requires as much or more skill than 

 to grow them. In the neighborhood of large cities at the east 

 there is always a market at some price and the demand is so great 

 that the price is not aifected by the amount that any one man can 

 produce. Experience alone can tell you how much you can handle 

 profitably of any given crop. My rule in selling is one that I have 

 rarely varied from without a loss. Whevever I can get a fair 

 price for an article let it go, no matter what the prospect of a 

 rise may be. 



This rule cannot of course be applied to those perishable articles 

 that must be sold as soon as ready for market. In these cases I 

 adopt the following rule : There is a gradual increase in the de- 

 mand for certain articles. I know what I sold last season, for in- 

 stance, of any or all my crops, and wherein I had a surplus or was 

 short'of a supply. In planting next spring I shall allow for the 

 increased demand in addition to what I had last season. Suppose 

 I find myself overstocked with some particular article, asparagus, 

 for instance. My own customers in all directions are fully 

 stocked up with it, and to send them more would be simply to en- 

 tirely break down my own market without doing myself or others 

 any good. I pack it up nicel.y and carefully and ship it to one of 

 the commission houses in Chicago, and let it be sold there for 

 what it will bring. By so doing, I save my own markets and am 

 rarely obliged to sell for less than cost. 



I want to say here that with the adoption of the most systematic 



