Peach trees trained on wall 



CHAPTER XI. 



POULTRY COMBINES WITH RAISING VEGETABLES, 

 BERRIES AND FRUITS 



WHERE there is no vision the people perish." First, there must be a 

 vision, a picture in the mind of a better condition before progress is 

 made. Without this stretching of the mind upward and outward 

 toward bette'r things, there would be no change. Our environments 

 would remain the same. From our dreams we see visions of what our 

 environments might become. If our imagination is strong enough, we 

 can build heavenly places from our immediate environments in our 

 dreams. 



If we have faith in our dreams, we evolve theories. 



"Faith without works is dead." Theories without practical 

 demonstration accomplish nothing. The world is full of theories. 

 Schools are founded on theories. Books are printed on theories, and 

 whole libraries are given to theories. But theories alone never changed 

 the face of this old earth in the least. They exist in the mind only. 

 When the hand works with the mind, then visions, dreams, and 

 theories may become truths and take on beautiful forms and shapes in 

 the material world around us. Man can only progress by working 

 along the lines of nature. All unnatural efforts fail. The laws of 



