23 THE 
GARDEN YARD 
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 struggles 
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, 
