CONTENTS 13 



CHAPTER II 



PAOI 



BUYING A GARDEN 85 



Ownership Sources of Information Agents 

 Where Not to Go Fertility Secondary Soil Never 

 Barren What to Buy Run-down Farms Cheap- 

 ness Relative Where to Buy How to Buy Don't 

 Fear Debt Borrowing Money Insurance The Mo- 

 nopoly Unproductive Lots Use and " Improve- 

 ments " Make Unused Land Pay To Buy or to 

 Build. 



CHAPTER III 



VACANT LOT GARDENING 95 



Charity vs. Self-Help Opportunities Assistance 

 Co-operation Little Government Needed Cost 

 Health and Success A Variety of Returns One- 

 half Acre Large Profits Land, not Capital, 

 Neecessary. 



CHAPTER IV 



REASONABLE PROSPECTS . . ...... ., . 105 



Living Costly Hunger Value of Food Products 

 What a Man Wants to Know Fortune in an Acre 

 Stony Wold Record Old Methods New Methods 

 Acre Profits Irrigated Shearer's Success 

 O'Brien's Hartman's Small Gardens A Woman's 

 Patch A 40x50 Garden A City Backyard Five 

 Cents Per Square Foot Glade Lands An Illinois 

 Plot A Michigan Experiment Farmers as Robbers 

 Youthful Gardners With Brains Average 

 Yields Census Reports What Averages Imply 

 Bailey's Estimate Philadelphia Gardners Uncom- 

 mon Vegetables Other Callings Similar Scientific 

 Farming The Farmer's Returns What Could be 

 Made What He Makes. 



