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hundred and fifty. They keep the land busy all the time. So 

 the small farmer who has such a valuable market as New 

 York is fortunate and may make a fortune if he will. Don't 

 you believe that New York will ever be over-supplied. New 

 York g^rows faster than it is possible for any number of peo- 

 ple to supply her inhabitants fully with sufficient fresh vege- 

 tables. In Connecticut you have large orchards of fruit 

 upon your hillsides, but you have mag-nificent valleys that are 

 growing- nothing, yet these will yield you more per acre than 

 your orchards yield — if you plant those valleys to vegetables. 

 The opportunity is simply marvelous. Raise good stuff. 

 Don't try to see how much cheap stufif you can raise. Raise 

 the best; there is a market for it and you can get your own 

 price. 



Use barnyard fertilizers. We need them. Why? One 

 reason, and a clear one, is because the humus is gone out of 

 the soil, and without vegetable matter you can't raise any 

 plant in the world. You may have all the chemicals you 

 can collect and you can't grow a spear of grass. Add humus 

 and you can grow everything. If you have no animals, get 

 manure from the city. If you can't get that, go into the 

 swamp and get the muck, dig it out and use it. 



The first thing to do when you start any kind of business 

 is to secure a partner, and get the right kind. Be full part- 

 ners. Let that woman or let that man know that it is a full 

 partnership; that they are to share alike in every way, man- 

 ner or form; don't say that you will give her $12.00 or $15.00 

 a year to run the house; half is hers every trip. You want 

 to divide square ; when you come in at night, tell her what 

 happened during the day at the office or on the farm, and she 

 will tell you what happened at home. If you start in this 

 way and continue, you will have very few "affinities" and 

 divorce cases. 



Twenty years ago I discovered, by accident, Long Island ; 

 from the East End, in Brooklyn; I asked someone how big 

 the Island was and he said he had been down to Jamaica ( 10 



