By KATE V. SAINT MAUR 



A Self-Supporting Home 



The book tells, with a common sense practicality, the story of a 

 family who got disgusted with the little they got for their money in a 

 city apartment and determined to try their luck in the country. 

 Rental at $15 per month instead of $50, was their first saving, and, 

 judging from the picture of the homelike and attractive house they 

 secured for the former sum, they probably agreed that economy was 

 not the sole advantage secured by the change. 



"One of the most sensible, practical books of the kind ever pub- 

 lished," is the estimate of the Louisville Courier-Journal. 



"If the reader has in him the least spark of love for country life," 

 says the New York Evening Post, ' 'this book will fan it into such a 

 glow that he will be possessed of but one ambition, and that is, to 

 establish a self-supporting home of his own. ... 'A Self-Supporting 

 Home' is full of explicit, practical helps on all kinds of farm indus- 

 tries, and the amateur may choose the two or three subjects most to 

 his liking, and gain from these pages valuable information. The 

 chapters are arranged according to the months, and the most impor- 

 tant out-door activities of each season are fascinatingly set forth." 



"Each chapter," explains the Boston Herald, "is the detailed ac- 

 count of all the work necessary for one month in the vegetable 

 garden, among the small fruits, with the fowls, guineas, rabbits, 

 cavies, and in every branch of husbandry to be met with on the small 

 farm. In this form the book is unique, and especially valuable and 

 simple for the beginner, who has no chance to worry or grow confused 

 about what he should do in each time and season." 



' 'It is one of the soundest, most sensible books of its class that has 

 been printed," is the comment of The Brooklyn Eagle. ' 'It covers its 

 especial field admirably. It does not contain all the knowledge that a 

 person needs to maintain a modest home in the country, but it does 

 give a quantity of detailed information about practical matters that is 

 worth whole libraries of theory. The book should make an especial 

 appeal to women who love country life, and who have before them the 

 problem of earning their own living. But you have just got to be 

 mighty practical to succeed." 



With 49 Full-page Plates. 



Cloth, I2mo, $1.75 net; Postage 15 cents 



PUBLISHED BY 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 

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