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ence of a farmer; and if the reader finds as much 

 pleasure in perusing these pages as it has given me 

 to write them, I shall feel that my labor has not 

 been spent in vain, nor the reader's attention claimed 

 for naught. 



MAPLE LANE FARM, 



EAST PALMYRA, N. Y., 1881. 



