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every bit of good in the earth and in the 

 manure that was put into it went into the 

 vegetables. You cannot raise two crops at the 

 same time from the same ground, and it must 

 always be borne in mind that between vege- 

 tables and weeds, the weeds are by far the hard- 

 iest and most voracious. 



Mr. Roosevelt, in his " Five Acres Too Much," 

 seems to have had peculiarly bad luck from 

 beginning to end. Every thing that he took 

 hold of cow, pigs, horse, garden, fruit-trees, 

 strawberries, chickens turned out badly, and 

 he could not find enough to say of the misery 

 of his experience. He admitted that he had 

 been led to that experiment by reading "Ten 

 Acres Enough." I will confess that I was led 

 to my experiments by the same book, but my 

 experience has been entirely satisfactory to 

 myself, and I should be sorry to think that it 

 was beyond me to keep a small garden in beau- 

 tiful order and raise a lot of chickens. 



The poultry question has been so often gone 

 over, and so many columns have been written 

 about the vast sums of money to be made by 

 raising poultry, by sending spring chickens to 

 market, or by selling eggs when they are dear, 



