THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



storage until midwinter or early spring involves 

 considerable risk and some expense, and there 

 is no certainty that the price will advance. 

 When the extra labor of sorting and carting to 

 the place of storage is taken into account, it is 

 in the long run usually wiser to take a little 

 less in the field when they are harvested. 



Grain is comparatively easy to handle after 

 it has been thrashed and cleaned. In New Eng- 

 land, corn, rye, oats, and buckwheat will cover 

 the list of cereals raised. 



Hay-raising for market Is a business in Itself, 

 and few owners of country estates have the 

 spare land to devote to it. That it can be made 

 to pay a handsome profit is unquestioned. Mr. 

 Clark of Higganum, Conn., who has a wide 

 reputation as a raiser of tremendous crops of 

 grass, counts on cutting about five tons to the 

 acre; and as hay sells at twenty dollars a ton, 

 baled, his profit is excellent. 



Fruit of all kinds is In ever-increasing demand, 



and fine fruits command fancy prices. The 



most successful fruit-growers pack their apples 



In boxes holding a bushel each. These are easy 



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