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they are siek and tired of the fruit and vegetables from the far 

 Avest and the far south ; they want the home-grown article. 



There are a great many other things you can raise. We 

 used to have gooseberries to eat; now you can't get thom. 

 Currants are the same way, and there is nothing better for a 

 dessert or for an appetizer in the morning. They are much 

 cheaper than grape fruit, and much better. There is a big 

 market for celery, and you can make $1,000 an acre from 

 acres and acres. There is no locality that has any monopoly 

 on a particular crop. The grape belt started because some- 

 body wanted to grow grapes there, and found that grapes did 

 well. Down in Illinois they wanted to raise corn, and it did 

 well, and they shouted about the corn belt. Why, we got 92 

 bushels of corn on Long Island, without an ounce of fertilizer ; 

 but what is the use of raising corn at 50 cents a bushel, when 

 you can raise these other things ? 



Don't try to sell the poor consumer a Ben Davis apple or an 

 Elberta peach, just because he doesn't know any better; the 

 same with pears and quinces. Raise the best ; the others will 

 not pay in the long run, — you will not get the price. The 

 man who raises Bartlett pears gets any price he asks. 



Whenever we heard of a new thing that promised well, we 

 tried it, and if it suited our soil and climate, particularly the 

 climate, we kept at it. In Japan we heard of a radish, the 

 Sakurajima, which we heard weighed 30 pounds, and we tried 

 that. The best we could do was 20 pounds this year. It is a 

 winter radish, with flesh like an apple, and is very fine to eat 

 raw. It also cooks beautifully with a little cream sauce, and 

 the tops are used as greens, — three plants in one. My chil- 

 dren and their friends ask for a Sakurajima, just as they 

 would for an orange or banana. We can get 5 cents a pound 

 for all we can raise, and they are as easy to raise as the ordi- 

 nary radish. The Japanese plum is just the same ; it matures 

 in three years, and sells for 5 cents apiece, all you can ship 

 to New York. 



We heard of the Venetian squash, butter-colored, sweeter 

 and finer than the ordinary squash, and we tried that. A 

 little Japanese friend sent me the seed of a pumpkin which 



