BUYING A GARDEN 



Ownership Sources of Information Agents Where Not 

 to Go Fertility Secondary Soil Never Barren What 

 to Buy Run-down Farms Cheapness Relative Where 

 to Buy How to Buy Don't Fear Debt Borrowing 

 Money Insurance The Monopoly Unproductive Lots 

 Use and " Improvements " Make Unused Land Pay 

 To Buy or to Build. 



IT is necessary to get hold of a bit of this 

 earth ; even a lease is a limited ownership, but 

 it is far better to buy. 



Do not be tempted off to the deserts or the 

 tropics; thousands of years have been used in 

 adapting your mind and body to contact with 

 your fellows and to temperate climes. New con- 

 ditions elsewhere are uncertain. Western Kan- 

 sas and Nebraska were settled up after 1883 and 

 a few wet years gave fine crops; then a few 

 dry years and the grasshoppers brought despair, 

 and homes and thriving towns were absolutely 



