A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



contain, besides, much that on the farm 

 would otherwise go to waste. In winter a 

 basket of fifty dozen will bring more money 

 than a load of hay it took a large patch of 

 land to grow, a team to cut, a horse and man 

 to rake, two men to stack, and a team, wagon, 

 and man to market. Sell fresh eggs or 

 none at all. Get just as far as possible from 

 the lot dumped on the corner grocery. Seek 

 for regular customers and get retail prices. 

 Stop crying about low rates and cheap goods 

 by rising above them. Herein is the gospel 

 of successful poultry raising." 



The above is so true that every poultry 

 farmer should take it for a text. 



NEW CHICKEN-HOUSES 



September should find the farm so over- 

 run with half-grown poultry that new houses 

 will be a necessity. It would be foolish to 

 spend money in poor, inconvenient make- 

 shifts, when one or two sections of a well- 



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