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are often openings between the bricks, where the mortar 

 has fallen out, endangering the wood- work near should 

 the accumulating soot take fire. A large proportion of 

 country fires are due to defective flues. One should 

 select buildings, if possible, with the sills well up from 

 the ground upon good underpinning of stone or brick. 

 This ensures the sills from decay and allows for good 

 ventilation of the cellar. Enough stable room and out- 

 buildings should be provided to properly protect all 

 animals and tools from the weather. By a systematic 

 arrangement a large number of tools may be kept within 

 a small space. More of our agricultural tools rust out 

 than wear out. Rapid and good work cannot be done 

 with rusty tools. 



6. What Are the Markets ? 



To grow a crop successfully and cheaply, and be able 

 to sell it to the best advantage, requires talents possessed 

 by but few individuals. The market where produce may 

 be sold should be carefully investigated. If within 

 teaming distance, or where express trains run frequently, 

 one may look for good prices for choice products, while 

 small markets soon become glutted and prices will be 

 low, even for the best. The business of supplying the 

 non-producing population with fruit and vegetables has 

 changed greatly in the last two decades. Few families 

 now lay in a supply of these articles for winter's use, but 

 depend upon the peddler or the retail grocer for their 

 needs from day to day. Instead of buying a bushel of 

 potatoes, beets, or turnips, a barrel of apples, etc., they 

 buy in much smaller quantities. To supply the con- 

 sumer in this manner requires the grower either to 

 "peddle" or to sell his products to those who are in the 

 retail or peddling business. If he sells to the peddler, 

 he must be satisfied to give him a large per cent, of profit. 



