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basis, where you can settle for yourself whether it 

 will pay you to have a home lot garden. Is your 

 time worth so much (and it will have to be worth a 

 good deal more than the average ) that your unem- 

 ployed minutes afternoons and before breakfast are 

 worth more than i8 cents an hour? If they are a 

 home lot will not pay you. If they are not, and if you 

 consider health, fresh and superior vegetable food 

 worth anything, then a home lot will pay you, as it 

 did me, big dividends. For the great majority of 

 families, particularly where there are young people 

 who can help out-of-doors, a home lot will make just 

 the difference between profit and loss, between money 

 in the savings bank and unpaid bills at the stores. 

 The home lot is the one reliable asset in your little 

 property that will neither fail, fly away to Canada 

 nor pass its dividends — the one partnership in which 

 you will always hold a controlling interest. 



Look at it in any way you will, keep a garden for 

 pleasure or profit or health, you may set it down as 

 your personal as well as national duty to make the 

 most of the land that has been given to you. It is 

 my belief that every man who has a bit of land is 

 bound to consider it as a trust whereof he shall ren- 

 der account and wherewith he should do his best to 

 make the earth bring forth her increase for the benefit 

 of himself, his folks and the rest of the republic. 



THE END. 



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