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Show BOYS AND SMALL FRUITS - Boys on farms, like boys in other places, want spending money, and are often sorely troubled to obtain it. They scarcely like to ask their parents for money to buy articles that please their fancy, and they have few opportunities to work out, for when neighboring farmers wish to hire help, there is plenty of work on the farms where they belong. Their best chance to earn money appears to be in cultivating some crop at home that requires small capital to engage in, a small amount of land for its production, but produces a considerable amount of money. The small fruits are excellent in these respects. They may be set out at time when the soil is too wet to be of good advantage, and may be cultivated at odd hours when there is little to do in the fields. They require but a small amount of land, and produce more money from an acre than any farm crop. |