CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



THE SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 3 



Intensive vs. Extensive Culture 6 



The Danger of Undercapitalization ...... 7 



The Consumer Coming Into His Own .... 9 



CHAPTER II 



MONEY IN THE BACK YARD 10 



How To Make Twenty-four Tomato Plants Hand 



You Fifty Dollars II 



Does Hoeing Pay? Well, Rather! 14 



What a Garden Did for an Invalid 14 



A New Kind of Economy in the Garden ... 16 



Plant Early and Smile at Your Neighbours . . 16 



The Versatile Hotbed 17 



Growing Plants in a Chicken Brooder .... 18 



Hotbed Results Without a Hotbed .... 19 



How to Grow Vegetables Before You Plant Them . 19 



Modern Success With Old-fashioned Methods . . 21 



Getting Better Seed 21 



The "Best" Potato and How to Obtain It ... 22 



It's Never Too Late to Garden 23 



A Garden Planted After the Fourth of July ... 23 



Discovered! The Real Use for a Back Fence . . 29 

 One-fifth of a Ton of Tomatoes from 300 Square Feet 



of Ground 31 



Getting Along Without Manure 31 



Making Tomato Plants Perennial 33 



Making Your/Oton Sprirtgtime 33 



How to Double the' Cabbage Crop in Yield and 



Quality 33 



