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tion, extra labor was employed to the amount of 

 one hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty- 

 seven cents during the summer. In the. berry 

 season boys picked the fruit at one and one-half 

 cents per quart, and thirty-four dollars and seven 

 cents was the total of their earnings. I also 

 paid ten dollars and thirty-nine cents for the use 

 of a team, and seven dollars and twenty-five 

 cents in an attempt to water my strawberry-beds 

 on a large scale during a very serious drought 

 in May. I am not sure but I did as much harm 

 as good, but of this more anon. I estimate the 

 board of help at three hundred and seventeen 

 dollars and fifty cents, and thus the total of my 

 labor bill amounts to one thousand one hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight dollars and seven cents. 



Now I am satisfied that if I could have given 

 more time and thought to the garden, and if its 

 heavier labors could have been performed with 

 a plough, at least four hundred dollars could 



