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A comfortable sufficiency of young, fat squabs and 

 other fowl ducks, geese, turkeys assuredly even 

 pheasants, if you've a taste for one of the more delicate 

 tasks of poultry raising. The guinea hen is a triumph 

 on the table, but something of a bolshevist in the garden 

 (her shrill, monotonous piping). 



A comfortable sufficiency of rabbit meat, in all re- 

 spects equal in some respects superior to chicken, 

 with a by-product of fur which, if it does not belong 

 to the luxurious table, is an added luxury for the family. 



In addition to all this the occasional kid roast ; even 

 pork, if you have a pig, the sanitary pen, and the 

 gumption ! 



All these elements of a generous living are within 

 the reach of the home-in-a-garden folk not only within 

 their reach, but subject to their secure control, regard- 

 less of railroad rates, middlemen's charges, strikes, 

 lockouts, and fluctuations in the purchasing power of 

 the dollar. They are available, too, at cost, which 

 means, as we have seen, a cent a quart for a superior 

 quality of milk; two cents a pound for the kind of 

 sugar that comes direct from the flowers; vegetables 

 and fruit at the cost of seeds, nursery stock and fer- 

 tilizer; meat at the cost of such feed as must be pur- 

 chased (at wholesale in the case of an organized com- 

 munity) to supplement the green stuff from the garden. 

 All this because the garden people have resumed their 

 heritage in the soil, the sunshine and the rain God's 

 beneficent provision for the physical sustenance of His 

 children on this good earth. I reckon neither the land 

 nor the labor into the cost. The land is part of the 

 garden home, costing no more, and possibly less than 

 that paid for a "canned" home in city apartments 



