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the necessities of outlay, and the standard of the 

 country or suburban outfit need be by no means that 

 of the urban, either in original proportion, or in 

 prompt restoration to pristine freshness. This econ- 

 omy, however, should not be carried to unwise ex- 

 tremes, and carriages, etc., allowed, for the lack of a 

 little attention and a trifling outlay for paint and var- 

 nish, to lapse into a condition of premature decrep- 

 itude. Many articles may be bought in quantity to 

 great economy, and neighbours should always com- 

 bine to get such things as forks, pails, brooms, 

 brushes, sponges, combs, etc., at wholesale rates, and 

 in wholesale quantities, subdividing them later; 

 while, in the same fashion, feed can most advan- 

 tageously be bought, for cash if necessary, in large 

 quantities, and distributed among the members of 

 this local grange, so to speak, as individual require- 

 ments demand. Suc^h methods are so eminently 

 practical that it is extraordinary they are never fol- 

 lowed — and they will afford a saving of at least 

 twenty-five per cent., a rather handsome retrench- 

 ment upon any enterprise; nor will this wise fore- 



