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these other fruits like strawberries have to be set every year, and 

 then have to have a man down on his knees pawing around, dig- 

 ging out the weeds, a good deal of the time, while gooseberries, 

 if properly set at the right distance apart, a large part of the 

 work is done by a horse. 



Then the beauty of it is when it comes picking time you can 

 have lots of good looking girls around picking the fruit — I 

 enjoy that, nothing better. Pick the fruit, then ship it off and 

 get the money. I had last year 150 bushels of this kind of fruit — 

 nice little income — brought me from 10 to 12^ cents a quart 

 wholesale. 



Now I am not going to weary you, — I am not going to talk 

 but a few minutes, — I shall get run down. It is so with the 

 farmer, anything that he starts into, anything that he feels inter- 

 ested in. Now I wouldn't advise any man who would kick a 

 sheep to go into sheep husbandry, neither a man that despises 

 a hen to go into the poultry business. You have got to love the 

 business that you are in. And if there is anything that I enjoy, 

 it is the growing of nice fruit — all over your farm beautiful fruit 

 growing, and you think of the income that is coming back to you 

 when you gather it, and the enjoyment there is in gathering. I 

 once heard a man say that if there was anything he disliked it 

 was peddling fruit. Now if there is anything that I ever enjoyed 

 it was the peddling and selling of fruit. Why, he said, you had 

 to go to the back door and the servants would come to the door. 

 Nothing pleases me better than to go to the back door and have 

 the maid come out in the morning and know that she is a good 

 looking girl. I enjoy that. The man that owns the premises pays. 

 You can stop and have a nice little chat with her, and go to the 

 next one, and it is really a business you can enjoy. I enjoy it 

 very much. And other things are just the same — I mean, other 

 business. I sold a man, a lawyer,, a plat of land. He com- 

 menced there in Newport two or three years ago and his busi- 

 ness was down, and he was an energetic man, he wanted to do 

 something. I advised him to buy a plat of land. Of course we 

 real estate fellows advise everybody to buy that has got money — 

 nobody but what has got money — and he bought this ten acres 

 of land out about a mile from the village. Five acres of it was 

 worthless ; it was so full of stones that sheep would want their 



