CHAPTER IV 



REASONABLE PROSPECTS 



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 40 x 

 50 Garden A City Backyard Five Cents Per Square 

 Foot Glade Lands An Illinois Plot A Michigan Ex- 

 periment Farmers as Robbers Youthful Gardeners 

 With Brains Average Yields Census Reports What 

 Averages Imply Bailey's Estimate Philadelphia Gar- 

 deners Uncommon Vegetables Other Callings Similar 

 Scientific Farming The Farmer's Returns What 

 Could be Made What He Makes. 



"LET US HAVE THE FACTS." Joseph H. Choate. 



DUN & Co., the commercial agents, calculate 

 that the cost of food has increased over 

 one-half in the last ten years. Wages have ad- 

 vanced less than twenty per cent. Now they 



seem likely to recede. 



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