A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



A portable bath-tub, lamps, stoves, wash- 

 tubs, and such tools as are indispensable 

 spade, long-handled shovel, pick, grub-hoe, 

 rake, two saws, scythe, sickle, axe, big ham- 

 mer, screw-driver, chisel, gimlet, and wheel- 

 barrow. 



During my first year of poultry raising, 

 like most amateurs I craved reliable infor- 

 mation, and bought, borrowed, and begged 

 many books, so-called authorities on the 

 subject. There was always a page, when 

 there were not several, devoted to each breed 

 of hens. In each case it was the best breed 

 (only there was a reason why it was better 

 not to keep it), lengthy dissertations on the 

 value of protein, carbohydrates, cellulose, in 

 a nutritive ratio in feeds all very learned 

 and clever, of extreme value to the experi- 

 enced poultryman, but mere confusing jar- 

 gon to the uninstructed. Remembering this, 

 my great desire will be to make these 

 monthly schedules of work simple and dras- 

 tically plain, stating exact quantity, quality, 



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