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this solution has its own weak points, as we lose the use of a 

 lot of land which might just as well be giving us a profit. 



Furthermore, the crop must be either something which the 

 owner of the orchard can use on the farm (as a crop of tur- 

 nips or mangels for stock feed), or else a profitable crop to 

 sell. 



The crops which we selected, having regard as far as pos- 

 sible to the above general principles, were beans, cabbage, 

 squash and parsnips. Thej are all of them good crops, I 

 think, and have in general proved satisfactory, and we shall 

 use all of them another season. 



In closing, I wish simply to say that, while I do not be- 

 lieve there are fortunes to be made in fruit growing, I do 

 believe that there is money in it ; for if a man will grow good 

 fruit (and experience has abundantly demonstrated that we 

 can do that here in Massachusetts), and if he will pack it 

 honestly (and almost any man can pack good fruit that way), 

 there is no more doubt in my mind about its being a profitable 

 business than there is that John D. Rockefeller has found the 

 oil business remunerative. And at the same time that a man 

 is making money, he is also living one of the pleasantest, 

 most wholesome lives to be found among farmers, and that 

 is equivalent to saying, among men. 



