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dren and have no help but the children, but I could 

 always find time to hoe the garden. I know it will pay 

 anyone having one thousand square feet of land, or 

 even half that amount, to raise their own vegetables. 

 This year when harvest came and lots of workmen,, I 



MRS. CALKINS PICKING BERRIES FOR SUPPER 



did not need to depend on the truckman as usual, but 

 went into my garden and gathered nice, fresh vege- 

 tables. My pocketbook showed the difference. Income, 

 seventeen dollars and sixty-two cents ; cost, seven dol- 

 lars and eighty-nine cents ; profit, nearly ten dollars. 



