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der winder and a horse and wagon to go to market But 

 I know notin about der book-keeping nor dish-kounts, nor 

 der per cents, but den I tells you vat I knows : / knows 

 ven I buys sugar for a Jive cent and sells it for a ten cent^ 

 den I makes money? 



&quot; The cultivation of fruits and vegetables, especially in 

 the vicinity of large cities, is, if skillfully managed, almost 

 uniformly a profitable business. An acre of superior pear 

 trees has produced to their owner $2,650 in one season. 

 A gentleman who is engaged in cultivating strawberries on 

 ten acres, eight miles from Cincinnati, states that the gross 

 receipts of his patch, in a single season, were 62,210. The 

 expense of picking, including the boarding of the hands, 

 was two hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the expenses 

 of marketing twenty-five dollars. The probable cost of 

 cultivation per annum is fifteen dollars per acre. This 

 gentleman cultivates all his strawberries on new but very 

 hilly ground. 



&quot; Xurseries generally yield excellent returns for the skill 

 and well-directed labor expended upon them, though, to 

 conduct them successfully, considerable capital is also re 

 quired. A nursery in the western part of the State of 

 New York, is reported to have made a profit of $80,000 in 

 one year, and another of $20,000. A writer describes a 

 half acre of seedling pears that he saw, as worth, at market 

 prices, ten thousand dollars.&quot; 



The foregoing appropriate extracts from an article 

 of Mr. Freedley afford the reader a favorable in 

 sight to the practical character of his labors. His 

 works on kindred subjects are crowded with facts so 

 pertinent to the design of this volume, that every 

 interested reader may study them with advantage. 

 But instances of individual success, equally striking 



