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we should buy almost as necessaries for in- 

 stance, vegetables, eggs, honey, fish, oysters, 

 small fruits, and wood for open fires. The 

 man who, having managed to obtain a little 

 place of his own, even if nqt more than an acre 

 or two in extent, will be singularly unfortunate 

 in my opinion, or will work with bad judgment, 

 if he does not succeed in providing for his 

 family all the vegetables, both for winter and 

 summer, that they can use, all the small fruits, 

 all the eggs and chickens, and, if he is on the 

 sea-shore, all the shell-fish that the neighbor- 

 hood affords. 



To go into details, and taking my own case 

 because, having done what I have done without 

 much special knowledge and no apprenticeship, 

 so to speak, any one else animated with a love 

 of out-door work will be able to do as much, 

 or more, here is a list of the things which I have 

 been able to provide in sufficient quantity for a 

 large family : vegetables in profusion through- 

 out the summer, and enough for a large part 

 of the winter; strawberries and small fruits, 

 more than could be used; ten times ths honey 

 that could be used winter and summer, the 



