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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 summer 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, 
vou 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 
