A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



WATER-CRESS 



Water-cress is easily forced for winter 

 use or market, and if you have private cus- 

 tomers for eggs, you can sell the winter- 

 cress, too, at 10 or 12 cents a bunch. 

 The spring brook which supplied us with 

 cress during the spring and summer ran 

 under a low log bridge. Chancing down 

 the wagon road late one January, we were 

 astonished to see fresh green sprigs of cress 

 flourishing under its meagre protection. The 

 hint suggested trying to protect enough of the 

 stream to provide our table the next winter. 



In October brush was piled some two 

 feet high on each side of the stream, for a 

 distance of five or six feet. Late in No- 

 vember a sort of hurdle of thin cedar poles 

 was made, and extra branches securely tied 

 on to prevent the wind from dislodging 

 them. When completed, the hurdle was 

 placed over the stream, each end resting on 

 a brush pile. Though primitive, this ar- 



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