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of your place, if it has been properly kept, and 

 also for your profits. The early fruit brings 

 good prices, and if you have shown foresight in 

 planning out your garden, you have planted 

 some fruit trees that will pay you. Harvesting 

 begins this month, and you want to be sure that 

 everything is in readiness. Have your bins 

 and cellars thoroughly cleaned and aired, so 

 that there may be no delay when crops are ready 

 to be stored. 



October calls for extra care for your fruit 

 trees, because frosts are to be expected. Winter 

 apples should be picked before they are fully 

 ripe and kept in a cool place, but where they 

 cannot freeze. If you intend them to last all 

 winter and into the spring, you should sort and 

 pack them carefiilly, seeing that no bruised 

 fruit gets into your barrel or box. One bruised 

 apple in a barrel may cost you half a dozen or 

 more of the finest. 



Although in some places it may be necessary 

 to begin fall plowing earUer than November, 

 yet, generally speaking, this is the month for 

 that work, and unless frosts come early, you can 

 plow about all through the month. It is the 

 month for finishing up the fall work and getting 



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