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bors' boys, may be the most profitable part of 

 the farm. 



The wood-lot may have possibilities for barrel 

 hoops, which may be sold to the improvement of 

 the timber. It may need only thinning to 

 bring you a steady income while it increases 

 in value. 



Fine apples grafted on the old trees that now 

 bear only cider apples, if properly sprayed and 

 thinned so as to give first-class fruit, may sell 

 for more than all the corn you can raise.* 



The "pesky briers" that the farmer stniggles 

 with year by year, may be the raspberries and 

 blackberries that will sell readily for good prices, 

 when they are cultivated, to the summer resi- 

 dents or boarding-houses. Your exposure and 

 soil may be just the place for the fine straw- 

 berries with which, when nicely separated from 

 the second and third grades, no market is ever 

 overstocked. 



But if you are always behind with the work 

 and always short of cash or worried to pull 

 through, you have no time to think of these 

 things and no means to hire labor nor to de- 

 velop them. 



That pond may be needed, if it were cleared 

 out, for a profitable ice supply, furnishing pay- 

 ing work in the winter. The stream may be a 



* There is only one good way to do this: cut back all the old 

 wood and work out a new top on which to graft the fine apple scions. 



