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plot in a perfectly sanitary way, and the family thereby 

 supplied with pork and bacon. This proposition has 

 been worked out successfully by the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, as we shall learn, when we pass 

 from philosophy to programme ; from the consideration 

 of the home-in-a-garden as a way of life, to the con- 

 sideration of its mechanical aspects ; or, as the reader 

 may perhaps say, when we descend from the blue sky 

 to the solid earth. 



In the meantime, we are not yet through with our 

 luxurious table. There are two staples yet unaccounted 

 for milk and sugar. 



