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and fifty cents for one thousand raspberry stakes, 

 and forty-one dollars and twenty-one cents for 

 crates and berry-baskets. My flowers cost me 

 eight dollars and ninety-five cents, and this was 

 the best investment made, though the returns 

 do not appear on the cash accuunt. Miscella- 

 neous items amount to fifteen dollars and six 

 cents, and I paid one hundred dollars rent for 

 the land. Summing up all these items of ex- 

 pense, we have a total of one thousand four 

 hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-nine 

 cents. 



I also allowed the village merchants fifteen 

 per cent, on the retail price when they sold for 

 me on commission, and this was not always de- 

 ducted when the sales were entered on the day- 

 book. Some losses occurred, also, through 

 articles becoming stale and unsalable, and by 

 arrangement, were charged to me in settlement. 

 These, with the commission, I have liberally 



