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ing middle age, though it might be necessary to increase 

 the number of units, which would be entirely feasible for 

 one having the whole day at his disposal. 



I am thinking all the time of those who will say : "Oh, 

 yes, it can be done in California, but nowhere else." 

 And my uniform reply is : "It can be done anywhere in 

 the United States, and in many places better than in 

 California." The rest of the country does not need the 

 California climate half so much as it needs the Cali- 

 fornia spirit ; or, if I may descend to the vernacular, the 

 California "punch." 



Yes, the home-in-a-garden will have plenty of fresh 

 eggs and fried chicken, to say nothing of chicken in 

 many other forms. But this is by no means all that 

 is to go on those luxurious tables. It will not do to 

 confine our diet to one kind of meat, however good it is. 



