freezes than around a natural spring. The producing season in 

 that latitude is elongated from forty to sixty days. 



As to the expense of the new tillage, the improvement of the land 

 in productiveness and the economies of the system in all ways, largely 

 dispensing with the cost of plowing, spading and weeding and the use 

 of expensive manures, turn every dollar of outlay into five at least 

 in a short space of time. In a word, the roots of trees, shrubs 

 and plants are constantly supplied, but never in surfeit, with the 

 amount of moisture needed for their healthy and rapid growth and 

 for the perfect development of leaf, bud, flower and fruit. These 

 magnificent results are not, with us, matters of conjecture, nor have 

 they been accepted without personal and careful inspection at 

 Father Cole's " Home on the Hillside." 



WM. C. HARRIS. 



H. H. THOMPSON. 



