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feet in that acre bore its crop, and bore the 

 best crop that could be obtained from it and 

 nothing else. The secret of keeping down 

 weeds was never to let them get a beginning. 

 One man was employed in doing nothing but 

 stir up the earth with a cultivator, with the re- 

 sult that every bit of good in the earth and in 

 the manure that was put into it went into the 

 vegetables. You cannot raise two crops at the 

 same time from the same ground, and it must 

 always be borne in mind that between vege- 

 tables and weeds, the weeds are by far the 

 hardiest and most voracious. 



Mr. Roosevelt, in his Five Acres Too Muck, 

 seems to have had peculiarly bad luck from be- 

 ginning to end. Everything that he took hold 

 of cow, pigs, horse, garden, fruit-trees, straw- 

 berries, chickens turned out badly, and he 

 could not find enough to say of the misery of 

 his experience. He admitted that he had been 

 led to that experiment by reading Ten Acres 

 Enough. I will confess that I was led to my 

 experiments by the same book, but my experi- 

 ence has been entirely satisfactory to myself, 

 and I should be sorry to think that it was be- 



