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Perhaps you reply, "This is all very fine, but is it 

 true?" 



" Yes, in its main features this is a true story of actual 

 experience. The facts and figures I have given you are 

 taken from accounts of bona-fide sales and expenditures 

 of a real market-garden. The originals of most of the char- 

 acters are still living in New England. 



The question is often asked, Does farming pay? This 

 is not a fair question. Does any business pay ? Does boat- 

 building, or soap-making, or carpentry pay? The question 

 is not, Does farming pay, but, Can you make it pay ? This 

 is something I cannot answer, seeing I do not know you 

 personally. I know nothing of your education or capabili- 

 ties. Some men with the requisite skill and capital would 

 make a fortune out of the manufacture of wooden clothes- 

 pins. I could not. Whether you could or not is more than 

 I know. If you had a son you designed to put into mercan- 

 tile life, you would not ask, Does it pay, but, Will my son 

 make a successful merchant? 



More and more attention has been turned to farming of 

 late years. Many are thinking of following the example of 

 myself and husband. For them I have but one word : 

 Be sure and farm 



" WITH BRAINS, SIR." 



