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year more.” Striding along beside the fences, he 
said, ‘‘Here should be a windbreak of evergreens, 
and there should be one of Tartarian honeysuckle 
or high-bush cranberry, giving bushels of food for 
useful birds. The windbreaks and birds would be 
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worth another large sum.” In this way he walked 
over a farm of forty acres. It was one of those 
places that “don’t pay.” The reason was plainly 
because the best part of the land was going to waste, 
and that no attention was being paid to that do- 
mestic economy which makes everything at the 
same time useful and beautiful. To follow out the 
suggestions of the new owner would transform the 
whole place into a garden. This is what must 
come about in relation to all home-making in the 
country. Small homesteads will be the rule, and 
these will cultivate the beautiful as well as the 
useful. 
It is so easy to make the beautiful and the useful 
work together, that I wonder that they are ever 
divorced. A handsome lawn, fine hedges, a clean 
and shaded highway, a shrubbery giving glimpses 
of continuous bloom, raise the market value of the 
property. I knew a man who shot a breachy cow, 
and then smilingly paid a fifty dollar fine, saying: 
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