100 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



the average working man's living expenses might be cut 

 down a half or more, and full strength, and often improved 

 health be maintained. 



By this means the young cultivator could keep down his 

 out-goings to the lowest possible point, as his solid food 

 would cost less than 2d. per pound (dry weight), and he 

 would secure the healthiest and heartiest bread at a cost of 

 8d. per four-pound loaf. If this bread is made up in small 

 roll fashion, quite unfermented, it will become very enjoy- 

 able alone, fresh every two or three days, as he will only 

 eat when " dry bread hungry." 



This method of living will be found to be far better as to 

 results than the ordinary white bread and pork, butter, etc., 

 upon which a cottager's family usually fares a fare that 

 scarcely any medical man to-day can support or defend for 

 producing muscle, bone, or sinew. Fruit, as his purse 

 allows, will afford enjoyment in raisins (in variety), prunes, 

 figs, and dates, simply scalded, with a little apple stewed, or 

 other acid fruit, to make it perfect, and nuts during winter. 



If the cottager thus can resolve to start upon the most 

 thrifty of all modes of living, he will be able to employ every 

 possible spare farthing upon his fruit trees, or the materials 

 for his garden frames and greenhouses. He will thus be 

 able to tide over the anxious interval till his labours have 

 been rewarded by a remunerative crop. 



Taking man as a productive machine, and his food as the 

 fuel that keeps the engine at work, it will be seen that the 

 selection and cost of the necessaries of life are a matter of the 

 greatest concern. It means all the difference often between 

 success and failure, if he can reduce his outgoings fifty per 

 cent, for food, without diminishing his working powers. 



The experiment is, therefore, worth making, as would be 

 any similar one proposed to cut down his outlay for heating 

 his vineries. Eecently the majority of the young men 

 employed at the Royal Gardens at Kew were living upon a 



