265 TO START 



SANITARIUM WORK 



ing for the yards and plots of town residents, 

 and in selling the products. 



Natural supplementary industries will grow 

 up around the headquarters, as they ought to 

 grow around any intelligent cultivator's plot, 

 such as preserving fruit and fine vegetables, dry- 

 ing kitchen herbs, like thyme, marjoram and sum- 

 mer savory; cake baking, candy making, nut 

 shelling, birch bark and rustic work. Those who 

 can themselves sell direct at retail, early, fresh, 

 well selected vegetables or flowers, will of course 

 get the largest prices. 



What is necessary is to make a beginning 

 now. To wait for another year is needlessly to 

 sacrifice not only well-being, but lives. 



Halifax, Nova Scotia, owned a large tract of 

 land in connection with its city prison. It was 

 wild, rough, rocky land supposed to be incapable 

 of cultivation. No effort was made to grow any- 

 thing upon it. In 1880 the city appointed a new 

 governor, a man city bred, with no experience in 

 farming, but he had faith in the possibilities of 

 God's good earth and prepared to prove it. With 

 the cheap labor at hand he began at once to clear 



