i8 $4223.00 IN ONE YEAR 



mention this happy experience to show you there is something besides 

 chickens that will claim your attention to good advantage. I found 

 it was not only profitable but a great joy to maintain a nice lawn 

 around my home, have a nice garden of vegetables and flowers, and 

 care for a lot of choice fruit trees. My lawn not only added greatly 

 to the appearance of my home and surroundings, but furnished a nice 

 place for croquet and tennis. Besides being very profitable to furnish 

 green feed for both my chicks and laying flock. I mowed my lawn 

 while the dew was on it, and fed the clippings to the fowls the flrst 

 thing in the morning; or I sometimes kept them in a basket in the 

 shade and gave it to them for their noonday meal. The dew on the 

 grass kept it fresh. I was careful not to tramp it down in the basket, 

 because it was apt to become heated and would not be as good for 

 the chickens. In making my lawn I sowed about sixty per cent 

 clover, as this made the best feed for my birds. My berry bushes 

 and fruit trees were much enjoyed by the entire family, and espe- 

 cially the children. It was a source of great joy to see the little 

 ones made a bee-line for the plum or peach trees the flrst thing in 

 the morning as soon as they were dressed, and come in the back 

 door with a great large luscious peach or plum in each hand, and 

 start to eat them before the morning meal was ready. How you will 

 smile when you take your basket and return to the house with it 

 full of berries, peaches or plums taken from your own trees! Then, 

 again, remember, every time you set out a shrub, bush or tree you 

 enhance the value of your property. 



