CAPITAL 103 



Meat and poultry 500 pounds 



Eggs 200 dozen 



Milk 1,200 quarts 



With the exception of sugar for which it might 

 be possible to substitute in its entirety honey, maple 

 sugar, and molasses all of this food was to be pro- 

 duced on the proposed homesteads. Only the food 

 items such as coffee, tea, spices, etc., would have to be 

 purchased by the homesteaders. And of course exotic 

 foodstuffs oranges, pineapples, oysters, olive oil 

 would have to be purchased, though life could very 

 well be maintained on whatever native foods there 

 were which furnished the same sort of nutritive 

 elements. 



The production of 4,750 pounds of various foods, 

 200 dozen eggs, and the 1,200 quarts of milk above 

 listed would require from three to five acres of land. 

 A homestead of this size would make it possible to 

 raise not only the food for the table, but the feed for 

 the livestock, the livestock consisting of 25 laying 

 hens and 25 cockerels or capons (raised from 75 

 chicks) ; two grade or pure-blooded Swiss goats with 

 their four kids each year (two of these kids, the 

 bucks, could be slaughtered and added to the meat 

 diet, the does being raised and probably sold), and 

 two hogs raised from pigs purchased each year. The 

 bees, of which there ought to be three or four hives, 

 would, of course, feed themselves. A considerable 

 number of variations in this livestock scheme are 

 possible without materially changing the land area 



