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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 carefully, 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 earlier 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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