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AND A LIVING 



Now the Stony Wold Sanitarium for con- 

 sumptive girls is at Lake Kushaqua in the 

 Adirondacks, where two feet of snow fell on the 

 8th of April, 1907. But one man's work sup- 

 plied over 150 persons with all the garden truck 

 they could use, from May to November, and fed 

 a lot to the chickens and cattle, off one and three- 

 quarters acres. Besides that, as Dr. Goodall 

 writes, they got forty-five bushels of potatoes 

 and a large quantity of root crops also, to lay 

 away for winter. 



Taking those figures to pieces we find that, 

 even in that climate, 1750 feet above the sea, 

 where the snow lies into April and frosts always 

 come in June, one-tenth of an acre will feed 

 five persons and leave a surplus. The rest of an 

 acre will give room for fruit or flowers to sell 

 and will keep enough chickens and a litter of 

 pigs to supply the most of the animal food de- 

 sired. 



Prince Kropotkin gives a higher estimate than 

 this. In " The Conquest of Bread " he says : 

 " Two and a half acres of market-garden yield 

 enough vegetables and fruit to richly supply the 



