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trouble or loss of time. This could uot be doue if each family lived 

 on a one-hundred or two-hundred acre farm. There is less hired help 

 required on the small farm also, and this makes the work in the house 

 lighter. 



I am an advocate of the small farm, and I want to tell you how 

 an ideal home can be made on and a good living made from five acres 

 of land. 



Whenever a woman's home making is spoken of, the man in the 

 case is presupposed and the woman's home making is expected to 



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consist in keeping the house clean and serving good meals on time, 

 etc. In short, that all of her home making should be inside the house. 

 It takes more than the inside of the house to make a pleasant home.^ 

 and women are capable of making the whole home, outside and in, if 

 necessary. She can do so to perfection on a five-acre farm by hiring 

 some of the outside work done. 



However, our ideal home should be made by a man and a woman 

 together. First, I want to say that a five-acre farm is large enough 

 for the support of a family. From $75 to $150 a month, besides a 

 great part of the living can be made on that size farm, from poultry, 

 or fruit, or a combination of poultry, fruit and dairy. This has been 

 proved by actual experience so that the financial part of this small 

 home is provided for. 



Conditions have changed so mvich in the country within the last 

 few years that we country women have no need to envy our sisters in 

 the city. AVe women on the farm no longer expect to work as our 

 grandmothers did. 



"With the high prices to be had for all kinds of timber and wood, 

 Ave now do not have to burn wood to save the price of fuel, but can 

 have our oil stove, which makes the work so much cooler in summer, 

 so much lighter and cleaner. There need be no carrying in of wood 

 and carrying out of ashes, with the attendant dirt, dust and disorder. 



Our cream separator saves us hours formerly spent in setting and 

 skimming milk and washing pans, besides saving the large amount 

 of cream that was lost in the old way. 



Then there is the gasoline engine for the farm. Bless it ! Besides 

 doing the work of a hired man outside, it can be made to do the 

 pumping of the water, and the churning, turn the v/ashing machine, 

 and even run the sewing machine. 



On many farms running water can be supplied in the house from 

 springs by means of rams or air pumps, and I know of two places 

 where water is piped into and through the house from springs farther 

 up on the hills. This water is brought down by gravity alone, and 



