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in drafts — there is no swamp miasma or disease- 

 breeding mosquito from below and compara- 

 tively little wet from above. However, personal 

 comfort sboidd never be neglected. It is your 

 main stock in trade — the chief element of your 

 success. First make yourself and family com- 

 fortable. Then let your income improve your 

 improvements. 



FAMXLT 



COMFOBT 



FIBST 



The family comfort depends mainly on three 

 things — a warm house, though it be small, a 

 good and convenient water supply, comfortable 

 and sanitary convenience for waste — ^house, well, 

 closet. 



TSE TENT 

 HOUSE 



It is possible to get along with^ considerable 

 comfort the first season in well constructed tent- 

 houses. A good tent, stretched over a frame 

 work, with floor inside and banked up oiitside 

 Avith soil, will be found habitable. A house 

 tent, however, shoiild have a fly over the top, 

 and Avhere the winters are cold or windy, a 

 double wall will pay. 



THE DUGOUT AVherc there is good drainage or a side hill is 



available, a dugout may be constructed which 

 will do for temporary occupancy. Such dugout 

 may be covered over the top with timbera, boards, 

 building paper or tar -paper, and four or five 

 inches of soil. The average American will not 



