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have been saved from this amount. I would 

 also add that the bulk of this labor was expended 

 on the vegetables that with me make nothing like 

 so large a return as fruit. Even where the latter 

 is cultivated by hand only, it does not seem with 

 me to require anything like the labor of a vege- 

 table garden. The strawberries are the most ex- 

 acting, but if they were kept rigidly in rows 

 they could be managed with comparatively small 

 outlay, and raspberries so shade the ground that 

 weeds have but little chance. Every kind of 

 fruit can be so planted that a plough running be- 

 tween them will leave little for hand work, and 

 therefore my labor bill is not so discouraging as 

 at first it might seem. 



I write with the expectation that the majority 

 will greatly improve on my experience. Many 

 may not have as good a market as I have had, 

 but by more economical cultivation they can se- 

 cure as favorable a margin of profit. 



