GARDEN PROFITS 



THE SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



THERE'S money in your backyard. Per- 

 haps you thought there was only a 

 varied collection of rubbish, weeds 

 and unsightly mud, and no partic- 

 ular hope for anything else. Or, 

 if you are a bit neater and more particular than 

 the majority, it may have meant a smooth grass 

 plot, dotted with clothes poles, perhaps relieved 

 by a flower bed or two. 



But have you ever thought that every square 

 foot of that ground is worth money to you? Dol- 

 lars and cents ? Vegetables and fruits for your own 

 use and for sale; fresh, tender, delicious, and in- 

 stead of your paying the grocer for them, they are 

 bringing you a profit? Moreover, there is health 

 waiting to be dug out of the ground; an appetite 

 and a means of satisfying it! A prescription, and 

 the medicine with which to fill it that's the kind 

 of a doctor to have, especially when his pills don't 

 have to be sugar-coated. 



In lifting from the backyard the familiar but 



