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valuable water-power or at least may bring a 

 high-priced crop of watercress; or it may be 

 the very water needed, when properly dis- 

 tributed, to make yours the most fertile land 

 in the county. The bit of swamp land, that 

 raises nothing but mosquitoes, may need only a 

 few dollars' worth of cranberry sets to be the 

 best paying acre in the country side. 



There may be a veritable gold mine in a 

 neglected quarry, or brick-clay pit, or kaolin 

 clay deposit, or in a sand bank, or a vein of 

 marl. 



Possibly you could rent the farm house or 

 let camping sites for the smnmer to people 

 who would pay city prices for much of your 

 stuff; so that you could afford to keep help 

 enough to leave only the easy work of super- 

 intendence for you. Brains save more work 

 than machines. 



If you are raising the same crops that your 

 neighbors do, harvesting at the same time, and 

 getting the same prices that everyone else does, 

 you may be sure that you are neglecting your 

 chances. 



The money is in finding things to raise that 

 will sell, and that do not have to compete with 

 all the others. 



Says the Farm Journal: " Farmers need more 



