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dollars to buy it. We paid one thousand dollars 

 down and gave our notes for two hundred dollars a 

 year, with the privilege of paying up as fast as we 

 could. The mortgage was at the rate of five per cent. 

 At the end of three and one-half years we had paid 

 the balance, bought teams and furniture. Still we kept 

 at work in the mill until we had enough to buy all the 

 tools and do all the repairing necessary. My wife 

 has worked in the shop until now and has quite a neat 

 bank account to her name." 



Solid Comfort. — I consider my garden has been 

 a paying investment because of the pleasure in caring 

 for it and the luxury of vegetables on our table, even 

 without any other profit. — [L. E. Burnham, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



If enjoying anything is of any account, the gar- 

 den has paid beyond expectation. It could be made 

 more pleasurable another year by having greater 

 variety of products. — [Charles Cooledge, New York. 

 There are some things that do not pay so far as 

 money goes, but which give returns that money cannot 

 buy, and one of these things is the pleasure of seeing 

 things grow and mature their fruit, and knowing that 

 your work brought it to pass. — [R. L. Porter, 

 Massachusetts. 



Our garden has been a source of pleasure as well 

 as wonder to us and our friends, that so much could be 

 grown on such a tiny little spot. A row of Caprice 

 nasturtiums fifty feet long in their gorgeous beauty for 

 a fence on one side, and a row of squash vines, 

 trimmed back, with their wealth of fruit on the other, 

 and the rows of cabbage and Brussels sprouts separated 

 by rows of scarlet peppers and tomatoes, with the dark 

 red foliage of the beets and the feathery carrots made 

 a beautiful fall picture. We counted at one time fifteen 

 distinct colorings and markings, from pale yellow to 



