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Show "-'v ""'i,'. r.sCrom the. Fruit Record. tV A COMPARISO'N. ' " ' ' Afarmer not more than .ten .miles from our grounds, turns, up Vis nose at "fruit growing," and' says it's (sma;ll busmess.ad'hard onjiorses nd wagons,' 'Let! us see abouUhis small business ' We liaye about" the same amount of jand whicli this farmer possesses. He employs on an average through the. entire year one, unmarried man and.oneirlthusgiv-ing.meaij? and.oneirlthusgiv-ing.meaij? .for, support L two persons,! besides his owi) family.. ',e employ onHan average twelre men, 'heads ' of as. many more "sinffiel men and women, for m9st eigtt mQntliBiu.fap the awrige 'numbeV'! ' '0' uf -J ;:.vir f V that-we give employment to, iiiolITd 1 per 1st, is thirty live to forty persons, 1 thus giving means tyr . snppbrt 46 , 1 least seventy ve ,o one hundred'per- I sons, besides 9;nr own family.... , I He pays. for help, $400 !por year." 1 We pay at least SiJ,000 per year. He sells from;)iis.!. farm, say, ; $500''' 'io I & 1 ,800 yearly, gross, , WA . ?J 5,000 I to 9 18,000 (which includes our.phmt - I ;de). -.:;p- I He plows,, harrowsv 'sows reapV I draws into the barn, t&esneB,. cleaM I !and draws to markvi 'life WW r ' H J V V ft HHH an acre, say an average of ' fifteen bushels of wheat, for wliic))U he ob- M tains gross, say $20 00. ' We.! piow ' -J harrow, plant, cultivWte, hoe, gaer W and market from acre an, average ofirty bushels of fruit, for which we obtain gross say $150, saying nothing W Pfth?pl'-94ts sold from samel He I m ihe mornim.Ml our heJp?PPWN V' f "Wm work 7;00 a.' m. to 6. -00 p. m. He T , fl tugs, lifts and b weals. We don't. f, fl |
