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Every country home ought not only to furnish its 

 own fruits, vegetables, eggs, chickens, flowers, etc., 

 but in some direction there should be a surplus for 

 market in other words, every country home, small 

 or big, should pay its own way. This makes it very 

 desirable that you locate not too far from city or 

 town. It is true that I am advocating the building 

 of homes in the country, but for the present we are 

 not able to command the conditions of transporta- 

 tion. This will come about in due time, so that any- 

 one may have his garden stuff fifty or one hundred 

 miles from market, and reach the consumer early in 

 the morning. At present the vegetable or fruit 

 grower can drive, each morning, ten to fifteen miles 

 and reach his customers in time that is, before 

 nine or ten o'clock. Most of his supplies will be 

 in demand by that hour, and it will compel him to be 

 a very early riser. 



A little nearer the market will be better, but if 

 you have private customers, which is always desir- 

 able, you must not live more than twenty miles from 

 their residences. You understand, or you will learn 

 as you go on, that a good deal of your fruit, such 

 as berries, will not keep over until the second day. 

 They must be picked one day and delivered the next 

 morning. 



If you cannot locate yourself as I am suggesting, 

 you must look out for some sort of public conveyance. 

 The trolley cars in some of our Western States are 

 already drawing long lines of truck and fruit to 



