DETAILS AND DOLLARS MY GARDEN. 



T HAVE tried this country life and found that 

 it answers all the requirements of my mod- 

 est way of living. In looking over my sources 

 of income, I should place my garden first 

 and my poultry-yard next. Of course, after 

 some years of experimenting, I have dis- 

 covered other, but subordinate sources of 

 income. For instance, having much time upon 

 my hand and aiming to get all the sunshine and 

 fresh air and physical exercise that I can find 

 during nine months in the year on my country 

 acre, I took up a good many little schemes for 

 money-making, or rather money-saving, for I 

 believe that the city man who retires to the 

 wilderness with the idea that he is going to 

 make money there, will, in ninety-nine cases 

 out of a hundred, be disappointed. I can save 

 money in the country by providing things that 

 we should buy almost as necessaries for in- 

 stance, vegetables, eggs, honey, fish, oysters, 

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