84 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



a small garden scientifically is a matter for the 

 most systematic kind of work. Three hours a 

 day of steady work upon a plot 100 feet square 

 will give every thing that can be wanted in the 

 shape of small vegetables. If potatoes and 

 cabbages are required a larger patch will be 

 needed, but even then systematic culture will 

 tell wonderfully. The use of new tools, such 

 as the hand cultivator, which does more work 

 in half an hour than can be accomplished with 

 a hoe in two hours, has greatly simplified the 

 raising of vegetables in a small garden. It is 

 also more than true that one square foot well 

 cared for is equal to three times the area half 

 cultivated. 



Still another source of income which has been 

 suggested to me by my tramps around the 

 country, and a business which offers no extra- 

 ordinary difficulties to the inexperienced, is the 

 raising of fine fruits for our New York market. 

 We have scores of farmers in my neighborhood 

 who make a living, and a comfortable one, from 

 their fields and their orchards, and trust almost 

 to luck for the quality of what they have to 

 sell. I have been struck many times with the 

 wonderful return for care and manure made by 



