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Show Small Fruits Neglected by Many Good Farmers On the farms of the country far too little of the small fruits are grown. When traveling over the country and a our talks with many farmers we team that a great majority of them grow small fruits only In a very small wav. if at all, says a writer in the Indiana In-diana Farmers' Guide. It Is difficult to understand why so little interest Is aken when these fruits may be grown in abundance so easily and cheaply. Every family, even those in towns who have a few square rods of garden gar-den soil, can have In from one to three years good quantities of these nits. I believe that the reason more , not grow sroalj fruits is because ney believe them difficult to grow, nence no efforts are made to set out "ushes and vines. who want to embark in small j 21 ,f?WInS fr family use can and ( I!!! , Iay ofC their ground and pre-I pre-I r"'6 U for setting In the fall. A quar- a"e of ground set to small fruits, "well cared for, Is enough to supply '"' average family. After locating the P "'spread a liberal coating of manure ,er it and plow six Inches deep. |