HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
I9G 
I F you are planning to build a home you will find it to your 
advantage to read this booklet before you decide on the material 
you are going to use. It is beautifully illustrated, full of valuable 
suggestions, and gives a short, concise statement of the merits of 
White Pine 
Three centuries of building in America have proved that no other 
wood so successfully withstands exposure to the weather as 
White Pine. And it is more than simply durable; it holds its place 
perfectly for more than a life-time, without warping or checking or 
opening at the joints. This long and satisfactory service makes it 
the most economical wood for home-building. 
Despite an impression of its scarcity. White Pine is still abundantly available today, 
as it always has been, in any quantity desired. If your lumber dealer is unable to supply 
it, we would appreciate the opportunity of being helpful to you in securing it. Send for 
booklet now. There is no charge for it to prospective home-builders. 
Representing 
The Northern Pine Manufacturers* 
Association of Minnesota, Wisconsin 
and Michigan, and The Associated 
White Pine Manufacturers of Idaho 
Address, WHITE PINE BUREAU , 
1919 Merchants Bank Building , St. Paul , Minn. 
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We do the long waiting—thus 
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Wm.Wamer Harper Proprietor- 
Chesfnut Hill. 
Phila. Pa. 
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the apple activities and which will find a 
ready sale. But even here I prefer to 
diversify again, and so avoid the off-year. 
The price of potatoes or cabbages may be 
high this season, but below our cost of 
production next. In the long run, they 
may be profitable, but we are looking for 
staple crops, our orchard supplying all 
the speculative features which we care to 
undertake. The barn door provides a 
steady market for all the grain that we 
can well raise. 
The factors with which we have to deal 
are, then: the capabilities of the men, the 
adaptability of the land, the market and 
the dovetailing of these into our present 
seasons of work, for the planting, grow¬ 
ing, harvesting and marketing of the 
various crops must be made to fit into a 
perfect mosaic. 
The chief limiting factors are the 
length of haul and the hillside character 
of our land. Just as this compels us to 
raise only high-grade apples, so it directs 
us to raise stuff that can be economically 
hauled or that brings a price which mini¬ 
mizes this cost. 
While this works against us on things 
which we have to sell, it is a strong argu¬ 
ment in favor of raising those which we 
now buy, but can raise. Wheat, oats and 
corn can be raised more cheaply in the 
West than they can here, but when the 
carrying charges and the various commis¬ 
sions (and adulterations) are added, it 
costs us more to buy than to raise them. 
Eggs are a cash crop, and if we wish 
to transform again into cash, this is one 
method by which to do it. A bushel of 
wheat weighs sixty pounds and rarely 
sells for a dollar. Sixty pounds of eggs, 
at 20 cents per dozen, will sell for $9.40. 
As between these two crops the item of 
hauling is nine hundred and forty per 
cent in favor of eggs, and even more as 
the price of eggs rises. 
Sixty pounds of blackberries sell for 
nearly as much as the eggs. There is a 
strong local demand for these berries, 
quite unsatisfied by the wild fruit, yet it 
has never occurred to anyone to cultivate 
blackberries. There are too many people 
in this world who would rather put in 
fifteen hours of time to get something for 
nothing than to get the same thing by 
five hours of real work. The cost of 
blackberries is the picking. When the 
picker has to wander all over the hills to 
gather them he makes only fair day wages, 
but when, because of a minimum of horse 
labor and care, the bushes are kept yielding 
abundantly within a few yards of the 
house a fair-sized revenue at once de¬ 
velops. 
Strawberries are raised in large quan¬ 
tities within a few miles of us, but these 
are all shipped to faraway points and the 
local market is left hungry for them. But 
these strawberry farmers are specialists, 
and they must look for the big markets 
or run both a local and a wholesale de¬ 
partment. Their total income must come 
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