400 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



man would provide coops and do the heavier jobs. Just as 

 heavy crops of potatoes, corn, and most other products could be 

 grown if the fowls were allowed to run at large, and by having 

 a small lot to confine them in for a part of the year, they can 

 be kept from damaging other qrops. 



It would not be difficult, by soiling, to keep six cows on ten 

 acres, and where the milk could be sold at retail, this would 

 give a fair income ; or if a fine quality of butter was made, that 

 would sell at a fancy price, this and the pork made from feeding 

 the skim-milk to pigs, would amount to a good sum. Still, 

 another man might prefer to cultivate his land in broom-corn and 

 manufacture the crop in winter, and would find this profitable. 

 Those who have a taste for gardening and small fruit growing, 

 and who are so located as to be convenient to a good market, 

 and what is more important, to a good supply of manure, will 

 find that from five to ten acres will furnish employment for one 

 or more additional hands, and give a handsome income. 



In every neighborhood one or more persons can net a hand- 

 some sum by growing, for sale, plants of cabbage, tomato, sweet- 

 potato, pepper, etc., and this will require but a few square rods 

 of ground. Examples might be quoted without number of men 

 who have supported their families, and even acquired a compe- 

 tency from a few acres in garden. 



In 1875 I hired a young German for one year. He had 

 landed penniless. He earned during the year one hundred and 

 eighty-six dollars, nearly all of which he saved. The following 

 spring he rented four acres of good garden land, put what 

 money he had into sash, manure, and tools, got credit for his 

 garden seeds, and went to work. lie has bought the land. 



I clip from an agricultural paper the following account of the 

 success of a house-carpenter who settled on a bit of land, less 

 than three acres, in New Jersey. He expected to have a gar- 

 den and depend on his trade for support, but times were dull 

 and wages dropped, and the outlook became dismal. He deter- 

 mined to go to work on his land and see if he could not make 

 a dollar a day from it. The sequel is told in his own words. 



" Some of my neighbors said it would be a failure farming 



