70 An American Fruit-Farm 



snow, hail, sleet, lightning, insects, fungi, changing 

 fashions for fruits, prices, the market, and all the 

 certain uncertainties of the entire fruit vocation 

 furnish a complete encyclopaedia of diverse pro- 

 vocation of much thinking. The fruit-grower has 

 plenty to do, plenty to eat, and plenty to think 

 about, — which is the very tripod of health and 

 sane living. He therefore should be a healthy 

 man, having all these things and living on the 

 earth and in the open. 



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