Two] SELECTING A HOME 
a country home that will pay its own way.” That 
is the sort of home this book is intended to lead 
toward. Anyone with a decent start can make 
the most beautiful home in the country pay its own 
way — that we lay down as a fundamental princi- 
ple, that the useful and the beautiful can go to- 
gether. 
Our friend the school teacher may take a wide 
range of choice. If bee-keeping is selected, it should 
certainly be in connection with the growing of small 
fruits. Bees make large quantities of honey from 
orchard flowers and from the small-fruit garden. 
In another chapter I shall explain the value to the 
bee-keeper of linden trees — or, as they are com- 
monly called, basswoods. But if you determine to 
grow flowers your market should not be remote. 
Florists thrive best in the near suburbs of cities. I 
know, however, a woman who makes a splendid 
living raising turkeys, and she is located forty miles 
from market. There is always a splendid opening 
in the way of growing fowls and furnishing eggs; 
and this occupation does not positively require that 
you live near a city. 
Whatever occupation you make a specialty, bear 
in mind that, with modern, scientific methods, more 
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