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four hundred dollars per year after getting a 

 good living from his acre, while many are be- 

 coming poor trying to run big farms without 

 irrigation. 



In the Eastern and Middle States are chances 

 to do just as well on a single acre. Oliver R. 

 Shearer of Hyde Park, near Reading, Pennsyl- 

 vania, makes $1200 to $1500 a year on 3 1-3 

 acres, of which he cultivated 21-2 acres. He 

 has raised and educated three children and paid 

 $3800 for his property out of the profits of his 

 intensive farming. 



D. L. Hartman, of New Cumberland, Pa., in 

 1905, got $454 from an acre of early tomatoes 

 and an equal amount from an acre and half of 

 later tomatoes. An acre and a half of strawberries 

 brought him $555 and his early cabbages aver- 

 aged about $300 per acre. 



He says that no one can fix the limit of value 

 one acre can produce. One-sixth of an acre 

 planted in radishes and lettuce, followed by egg- 

 plant and cauliflower, and the next year to rad- 

 ishes alone, followed by eggplant, brought over 

 $200 each year; at the rate of over $1200 an acre. 



