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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 — 



