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are sufficient ; but when double that distance, three ave 

 necessary. When three animals are required, it is most 

 profitable to use a team of mules to do the plowing and 

 heavy hauling of manure, etc., and do the marketing by a 

 strong active horse. Every operation in cultivating the 

 ground is done by horse labor, whenever practicable to do 

 so; but it must be remembered that the crops of a garden 

 are very different from those of a farm ; the land is in 

 most cases (particularly for the first crops) planted so 

 close, that nothing will do to work with but the hoe. 



