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five dollars worth of pigs, three cows, and four calves. 

 We had at the end of the year no cash in pocket, but 

 a full kit of tools and a splendid team of horses 

 altogether worth three hundred dollars. The next 

 year brought us a good cash balance of three hun- 

 dred and forty dollars and we have been doing better 

 and better ever since." 



The fruit grower has created a flower garden, a 

 fruit garden, a vegetable garden, an apple and pear 

 orchard, bee yard, hen yard, and cow yard; that is 

 when his place is completed. If I am not mistaken, 

 and I speak from experience as well as observation, 

 he will from a five acre farm of fruit run on the in- 

 tensive principle that is with diversified crops, 

 each one carefully worked on scientific principles 

 at the end of the second year be about even; at the 

 end of five years from strawberries and cherries he 

 will take one hundred dollars, from currants one 

 hundred to two hundred dollars, from raspberries two 

 hundred dollars, from plums one hundred and fifty 

 dollars, from honey seventy-five dollars, from pears 

 seventy-five to one hundred dollars, and from apples 

 probably not more than one hundred dollars more. 

 He will also have his family cow and a good work 

 horse, while his milk pans are full as well as his 

 " butter crock " good, sweet butter with no barn 

 flavors and there is an abundance of thick cream 

 for his berries and for cereals. If he is near town 

 he will also be selling a surplus of both milk and 

 butter. 



