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tion of weeds means that the crops are not 

 robbed of their nourishment, and that they 

 will pay fifty and a hundred per cent, better. 

 Besides how monotonous life would become 

 if there were no weeding to be done ! 



FRUIT GROWING 



This is a most interesting subject. Eng- Fruit 

 land, especially Kent the garden of England gr 

 has always been looked upon as a fruit- 

 producing country, but it is only within our 

 own time that such a tremendous impetus has 

 been given to fruit growing on a thorough 

 systematic basis. Of course the importation 

 of corn from abroad, and the general cheapen- 

 ing of bread, has thrown whole corn-growing 

 districts out of cultivation, but here steps in 

 the fruit grower and intensive farmer. In 

 the returns issued by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture for 1902, the acreage of orchards has, 

 since 1885, increased by 40,000 acres, and 

 that of small fruits, since 1888-90, by 33,000 



