36 FLIGHT FROM THE CITY 



There is simply no comparison between fresh, home- 

 made butter and creamery butter. With a good re- 

 frigerator to get the cream to the proper temperature, 

 the butter forms very quickly. Most of the operations 

 in butter-making can be done mechanically with an 

 efficient kitchen mixer. 



When we purchased "Sevenacres," we found our- 

 selves in possession of a small "farm" little of which 

 was really suitable for farming. There was plenty of 

 room for garden, though no vegetables and berries 

 had been raised on the place for many years; there was 

 an old orchard containing some apple, plum, and 

 cherry trees; there was a hay-field, and a piece of 

 woodland suitable for a wood-lot. Actual farming 

 operations for us, when we began to develop our 

 theory of self-sufficiency, seemed to fall into two di- 

 visions one having to do with the growing of vege- 

 tables, berries, fruit, and foodstuffs for our own con- 

 sumption, and the other with the growing of feed for 

 the chickens, the goats, and other livestock. We have 

 had considerable success with the first; with the sec- 

 ond we have tried to do relatively little as yet. 



During the four years we were on "Sevenacres" we 

 did not get around to grain-farming at all, though 

 there was room enough for raising grain enough for 

 both feed and for our own table. On the "Dogwoods" 

 we have not as yet cleared enough ground. We have 

 always managed to produce some hay, and on our new 

 place have usually managed to put away a load of oats 



