CHAPTER XXVIII. 



The Home Gakden. 



The man who has always lived in a larg'e city does 

 not know what wholesome eatingf is. Had he possession 

 of unlimited wealth he could not buy freshness. 



WHAT THE The garden is the small piece of intensively 



jjOBs cnltivated ground which no home, wherever it 



may be located, should be without. This garden 

 may be a tomato can growing a single plant or it 

 may cover an acre. It may be for beautifying 

 a place by raising decorative plants or it may be 

 used to supply the principal living for the fam- 

 ily. It is this latter kind of garden that iits into 

 the necessary economy of the successful farm. 

 The garden supplies genuine food. It is pure 

 food. No other food can take the place of or 

 excel fresh garden truck. This food, raised at 

 home by the application of a little time and 

 labor, brings more happiness and thrift per 

 square rod than the rest of the farm does per 

 square acre. It furnishes sustenance and cheap- 

 ens the cost of living. The garden, the cow, the 

 hen and the pig are home economies which fur- 

 nish a living unexcelled, and the farmer who 

 husbands his resources and saves money in these 

 several ways, never fails. 



It has been the gardeners of the West that 



