luscious fruits grown by your own hands, you have a two-fold pleasure. 

 Green corn gathered with your own two hands from your own garden, 

 eaten at your own table, gives a contentment not to be compared. 



A rich soil is the first essential to rapid growth, then water and 

 sunlight. Most soils can be made better than they are by fertilizers. 

 All soils that are cropped continually need to be replenished. This is a 

 serious question to those who cultivate the soil. Right here is where 

 poultry raising works hand in hand with the garden home. Poultry 

 manure is the richest of fertilizers, and when mixed with the soil and 

 well watered, will produce astonishing results. Modern methods of 

 egg-farming require very little space. The home garden, with berries, 

 fruits and vegetables, makes the finest combination with laying hens. 

 All the waste green feed can be fed to the hens. It sounds like a fairy 

 story. 



The fertilizer from the poultry houses is mixed with the soil, which 

 produces the green feed that makes the eggs, thus making an endless 

 round with an ever increasing production from the soil. The more 

 greens raised for the hens on a given plot of ground the greater 

 the profit. 



Far from the noise, uncertainty, and bad air of the restless and 

 relentless city, the family on their own garden home has every luxury 

 that money can buy, and many that money cannot buy. The profit from 

 the eggs from 250 well-bred hens correctly fed along with a home 

 garden will make a very good living for one person. For each member 

 of the family add 250 more hens. 



If a bank account is desired above a good living, then increase the 

 number of the hens accordingly. 



He is counted a public benefactor, who can make two blades of 

 grass grow where only one grew before. It is safe to say that the 

 average acre can be made to produce ten times as much by heavy 

 fertilizing and correct tillage of soil and by using sufficient water. 



A garden home with poultry for income makes the finest combina- 

 tion, for from the poultry there is a constant supply of the richest 

 fertilizer that makes possible the most luxuriant vegetation. 



Is it not the greatest folly that nations should perish by violence 

 fighting over boundaries when there is more rich land in the world 

 than the whole population of the globe can possibly till? If every 

 mother could rear her children in a garden, then her sons would see the 

 tragedy of slaying their kind for they would have health and strength 

 and peace of mind that would bring on earth peace and good will to men. 



