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 three women have made arrangements with a certain farmer in Connecticut to supply us the year around with eggs, chickens and ducks. We have agreed to take a definite quantity each. He receives a little more than he would from the commission men, and we pay a little less than we would at the market.

"These fine new potatoes were bought by the bushel, enough to last the three of us for the year. The farmer keeps them for us in his cellar and ships them, a barrel at a time. We paid him cash for our year's supply of potatoes, at a dollar a bushel. We've been buying them here in New York at the rate of two dollars a bushel. So I saved fifty per cent. on the potatoes you ate.

"Corn, at Dahlgren's, sells at three ears for ten cents. Figuring up the contents of this week's hamper, the corn I served to-night cost only a cent and a half an ear.

"The tomatoes, lettuce, parsley and peaches all came out of the Home Hamper at half the price asked at a city market. Even those stuffed dates represent thrift. I used to pay eighty cents a pound for them at Dorlin's. Lena