two] selecting a home 



a country home that will pay its own way." That 

 is the sort of home this book is intended to lead 

 toward. Anyone with a decent start can make 

 the most beautiful home in the country pay its own 

 way — that we lay down as a fundamental princi- 

 ple, that the useful and the beautiful can go to- 

 gether. 



Our friend the school teacher may take a wide 

 range of choice. If bee-keeping is selected, it should 

 certainly be in connection with the growing of small 

 fruits. Bees make large quantities of honey from 

 orchard flowers and from the small-fruit garden. 

 In another chapter I shall explain the value to the 

 bee-keeper of linden trees — or, as they are com- 

 monly called, basswoods. But if you determine to 

 grow flowers your market should not be remote. 

 Florists thrive best in the near suburbs of cities. I 

 know, however, a woman who makes a splendid 

 living raising turkeys, and she is located forty miles 

 from market. There is always a splendid opening 

 in the way of growing fowls and furnishing eggs; 

 and this occupation does not positively require that 

 you live near a city. 



Whatever occupation you make a specialty, bear 

 in mind that, with modern, scientific methods, more 



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