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sented to Deacon Laiigworthy of such marvellous size and beauty, 

 as to excite wonder. We also showed Mr. Langworthy four rows of 

 the Philadelphia red raspberry, in which the bushes were so heavily 

 laden as to make it impossible to stake them sufficiently to prevent 

 the bushes from being prostrated by the wind. As near as we 

 could calculate, the yield would have equalled five hundred bush- 

 els to the acre. This, however, is mere guess work, since to pick 

 the berries as fast as they ripened was impossible, and more than 

 half of the crop perished. 



That hillside lands having clay or hard-pan subsoils valued at 

 fifty dollars per acre, and scarcely paying at that, will have their 

 soils deepened and rendered correspondingly productive, and at 

 an expense not exceeding fifty dollars per acre in trenching, be- 

 come permanently improved, paying splendidly on from two to 

 five hundred dollars per acre, we have no doubt. Although differ- 

 ent views may exist as to the increase in value of farm lands by 

 adoption of our system, when it comes to the matter of gardening 

 and fruit farming, our own expeiience is conclusive. 



It has only been four years since the first stroke of work was 

 done on our model five acres. We have now about a quarter of an 

 acre of strawberries, plants three years old in August of the pres- 

 ent year (1885); not far from an eighth of an acre two years old; 

 another eighth, eighteen months old, and a quarter of an acre will 

 be a year old the last of September, 1885. Our first quarter of an 

 acre, three years old the present season, will be found only good 

 for the half of a full crop, from the fact of having imperfectly done 

 our work at the beginning. Our currants, raspberries and black- 

 berries are just fairly coming into bearing, also our quince, pear 

 and plum trees. When all are in full bearing, (which we cannot 

 count upon short of five years yet), to put the income from our five 

 acres at five hundred dollars and upward per acre is perfectly safe, 



