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CHAPTER XIII 



FRUITS 



Specializing or diversifying. Money in the best. Apples, con- 

 ditions. Peaches, grapes, plums, etc. Yield of cherries, currants, 

 etc. Strawberries. Animal free lunchers. Wild berries. Nuts. 



CHAPTER XIV 



FLO WEBS 



Popular flowers: glass. The capital needed. Shipping. 

 Chances of success. A woman's violet farm its methods 

 enemies. Chrysanthemums. Poppies. Street sales of flowers; 

 common flowers. 



Orchids. Ferns. Shrubs, etc. Bulbs. The prospects. 



CHAPTER XV 



DRUG PLANTS 



Gathering wild drugs. Scarcity of some. Ginseng. Difficulties 

 of growing these plants. Preparing them for market roots, 

 leaves, flowers. Selling. Demand and variable prices for vari- 

 ous sorts. New branches. Edible weeds. 



CHAPTER XVI 



NOVEL LIVE STOCK 



Frog culture product and value. Carp ease of raising. 

 Bass ; how raised. Pheasants bred like poultry. Home birds. 

 Table-snails treatment. Silkworms methods. 



Dogs. Cats a better venture. Wild fauna for our own eat- 

 ing. Hunting skins. Raising "wild" animals. Foxes, etc. 



CHAPTER XVII 



WHERE TO GO 



Near the market for intensive cultivation. Swamps or worn- 

 out farms profitable. Opportunities in "York State" descrip- 

 tions prices. Wages there. Long Island opening up for 

 cultivation character. Openings in New Jersey abundance. 

 Soils uses. Cheap land. Exceptional transportation facili- 

 ties. In Delaware: for fruit. Land coming into market. 

 Soils description wages. Arresting fruit pickers. Fauna. 



