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yields to him in consideration of a fortnight at the 

 close of the season at the Ocean House. He has not 

 built not he ; he has added a wing sufficient for his 

 summer accommodation. He has not employed a 

 Scotch gardener not he. The old owner, a practical 

 farmer, remains in charge under agreement to share 

 sales, the owner furnishing half stock and equip- 

 ments. He transports his household the twentieth of 

 June ; and by contract, shares the farmer's larder, 

 adding such private delicacies as he chooses. He 

 secures all his winter butter and poultry, and makes 

 sales of the excess, on partnership account, to well- 

 known dealers. The farm is not a moth to him by 

 no means. Returns fully balance the interest ac- 

 count ; and the farm, lying within three miles of 

 a thriving city, is rapidly appreciating in value. 

 In view of this fact, he expends five hundred a 

 year in such improvements as will make the land 

 more desirable for suburban sites, and in five years 

 hence is confident of quadrupling his money. 



Mr. Urban, who has wavered under the Heaviside 

 story, is as cheerfully intent upon his farm as ever. 



The next witness is a philosopher and reformer. 

 He believes in drainage deep drainage in sub-soil- 

 ing, in phosphates, in science, in anything almost 

 which is told him seriously. The consequence is, he 

 has bought a farm that no one else would buy, and 



