PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION 



The Nation-wide movement toward the increase 

 of the Food Supply by the utilization of neglected 

 back-yards and other waste places, has resulted 

 in a stupendous increase in food products. And 

 this has been accomplished at low cost, for the 

 charges for transportation and the profits of the 

 middlemen are eliminated. 



While there have been some failures, the vast 

 majority have achieved a gratifying success. This 

 will stimulate and encourage increased effort in 

 the years to come. The experiences have been 

 educational and helpful, and will add greatly to 

 efficiency in future efforts in this line. 



The Author hopes that he has, in an humble 

 way, been of assistance in this great, laudable 

 and patriotic movement, and the large number of 

 unsolicited words of appreciation as well as the 

 reports of gratifying success by some of the new 

 methods, described in this volume, seem to justify 

 this view. At any rate it is a great satisfaction 

 to him to believe that he may have been able to 

 do his bit in thus trying to solve the difficult 

 problem of The High Cost of Living. 



^ THE AUTHOR. 



COVINGTON, OHIO, 



SEPTEMBER, 1917. 



