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last refusing to accept oysters in any shape as a 

 substitute for meat ; all the eggs and more than 

 could be used, and chickens for the table from 

 the end of July until far into the winter. With 

 the additional experience of several years of 

 this life I find other sources of income looming 

 up, or rather of money-saving, for I should like 

 to emphasize the idea that it is not money- 

 making I aim at. Some of my friends have suc- 

 ceeded admirably with pigeons ; others have 

 done wonders with mushrooms, an acquaintance 

 of mine out in Jersey having paid his rent and 

 the wages of a man out of the proceeds of one 

 small mushroom house not twenty-five feet 

 square. These are things for future experi- 

 menting with me, but of the others I can speak 

 with knowledge. 



At the same time I would warn any one that 

 there is a certain amount of danger, the worst 

 side of the picture having been set forth amus- 

 ingly, although too flippantly, in my opinion, by 

 Mr. Robert Roosevelt, in his amusing book, 

 " Five Acres Too Much." As I have already 

 hinted in my garden talk, there must be hard 

 work and systematic work, and work done in 

 person, and not by proxy. It may be said that 



