90 Details and Dollars 



work upon a plot one hundred feet square will 

 give everything that can be wanted in the 

 shape of small vegetables. If potatoes and 

 cabbages are required a larger patch will be 

 needed, but even then systematic culture will 

 tell wonderfully. The use of new tools, such 

 as the hand cultivator, which does more work 

 in half an hour than can be accomplished with 

 a hoe in two hours, has greatly simplified the 

 raising of vegetables in a small garden. It is 

 also more than true that one square foot well 

 cared for is equal to three times the area half 

 cultivated. 



Still another source of income which has 

 been suggested to me by my tramps around 

 the country, and a business which offers no ex- 

 traordinary difficulties to the inexperienced, is 

 the raising of fine fruits for our New York 

 market. We have scores of farmers in my 

 neighborhood who make a living, and a com- 

 fortable one, from their fields and their 

 orchards, and trust almost to luck for the 

 quality of what they have to sell. I have been 

 struck many times with the wonderful return 

 for care and manure made by several species of 



