Ten Thousand a Year 265 



There are times not to do things. 



Trim the plant when it is at rest; its work is to bear fruit. 



Much trimming means quality of fruit. 



Better trim with a penknife than an ax. 



Don't wound tree or vine: no man can at the same time lie 



in hospital and do active service. 

 The most profitable labor is profiting by labor. 

 The eye makes the package and the package makes the 



market. 

 Look out for the lean spots on the farm ; one lean spot eats 



up seven fertile ones. 

 The land likes a mixed diet, but it must be fed. 

 Handsome fruit brings handsome profits. 

 Stones and culls in your package sell the other man's fruit. 

 The quality of your fruit reflects your own. The quality 



shows the willingness of the land. 

 Don't expect more from your fruit-farm than you put into it. 

 The man who knows all about fruit-raising has not yet been 



born. 



His own house stood in another section of the 

 farm. ''Woods are getting scarce; pretty soon 

 people will not know how they look. Better 

 save this morsel as a sample. ** His whole farm 

 hinted strongly of his sense of the beautiful. 

 He set out hundreds of rods of ornamental 

 hedge, and scores of ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 and as many flowers as he could find room 

 for. People sometimes wondered that he, of all 

 men in the Valley the most practical in mere 

 money matters, would fritter away his time on 

 mere ornamentation of his estate. But he had his 

 reward. Scores of fruit-growers in the Valley 

 took the hint; the process of beautification begun 



