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peeially should be treated to all the luscious fruits, fresh and preserved, that, 
they may desire to eat—none should be deprived of the light and excellent 
food to be found in the choice culinary vegetables so easily grown. 
Many troublesome diseases are unknown ito the free uses of a largely veg¬ 
etable diet. A convincing argument fu the value of fruit is this. Settlers in 
a new country improve in health- as their orchards begin to yield freely. Sail¬ 
ers in the frigid zone succumb to severe, sometimes fatal diseases, very soon 
after their supplies of fruits and vegetables give out. 
Statisticans prove beyond any doub that people on an average live longer 
now than in past centuries. This fact should in a large part be ascribed to the 
rapidly increasing use of fruits and vegetables in recent years in all civilized- 
lands. 
The presence of trees about a place contributes greatly to the comfort of 
man and beast. A dense belt of trees, especially evergreens, to the windward 
of a home will save the consumption of many an additional ton of coal in keep¬ 
ing the residence at an agreeable temperature. A similar gain comes in the 
saving of feed and the increase thrift of live stock in stables that are well 
sheltered from wintry storm. The summer life of man and beast is made more 
pleasant for the presence of an abundance of shade trees. Increase the trees 
of the land, and we not only add to the attractiveness of our country, but that 
is provided which modifies the conditions of freshets, of drouth, and of swwep- 
ing gales and cold. 
3. It Pays in the Profits that may be derived from the Sale of Surplus Products. 
Our population living in towns and villages become ready buyers from those 
who have a surplus. On this account the judicious culture of fruits and veg¬ 
etables is among the most profitable branches of land culture. Tens of 
thousands of gardeners and fruit growers all over our land derive larger in¬ 
comes from their small plats of perhap less than ten acres each, devoted to 
these crops than does the average farmer from his many acres given to farm 
crops. 
A neighbor of the writer, from a Bartlett pear orchard of less than two 
acres, clears upwards of $1,000 year after year on his crop. The sales from an 
acre of strawberries in the vicinity of thriving towns and villages is seldom 
less than $300, and often reaches $400 to $800 a year. 
TENNESSEE. 
Fruitland, Tenn., March 26, 1S98. 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill. 
Dear Sir.-—Evergreens came in all O. K. They are looking nice. 
Yours, etc., Hardison. 
WISCONSIN. 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill. Cross plains, V/is., May 12,1898. 
Dear Sir:—Vines arrived all right and in good shape. Thanks for careful 
attention. Respectfully, Mrs. H. Festige. 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill. Blue Rapids, Kans., April 5,1898. 
Dear Sir:—Evergreens arrived all right. They are nice, thrifty trees. 
Yours truly Nevins Bros. 
P. Hill, Dundee, Ill. Caldwell, Kans., April 4, 1898. 
Dear Sir:—I received the little Pines today—just four days from date of 
shipment—in good condition. If I can get a large per cent of them to grow I 
will want more next year. f ours truly, O. T. Neff. 
