CROPS AND PROFITS 



than do the pomologists to their science of 

 fruiting. I think the development of this 

 home manufacture has been quickened by 

 Maine-laws, heavy import duties, and by a 

 growing reluctance on the part of the heads of 

 families — to carry a demijohn in the wagon. 

 I also hear the home product commended by 

 the old gentlemen manufacturers, as "warm- 

 ing to the in'ards" ; and in large doses, I should 

 think it might be. Their town customers for 

 this beverage are mostly exceedingly serious 

 and sedate people, who have a comical way of 

 calling homemade wines — "pure juice." 



And pray, why should not sedate people en- 

 joy the good things of life, — call them by what 

 names they will? I know an exceedingly 

 worthy man who never buys his cider except 

 of a deacon; and then only by the cask; and 

 he buys it very often. 



PLUMS, APRICOTS, AND PEACHES 



I AM sorry to give so poor an account, as I 

 needs must, of these stone-fruits. As respects 

 the plum, there is, indeed, an incompatibility of 

 soil upon my farm, to be contended against ; but 

 this difficulty is trifling, in comparison with 



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