CONCLUSION 
The amount of joy to be gotten out of a few acres, 
run in the name of mutual aid and good-will, is 
amazing. Birds sing in concert, and the cows have 
ways of expressing joyous good-will. Bossy rubs 
her head against your arm, and asks you to scratch 
her neck. The fowls jump on your shoulders and 
eat from your hand. Fear is banished. The strug- 
gle for existence passes largely into a generous 
codperation for the common good. Chirping 
birds hop about your door, and catbirds perch 
near your balcony to talk noble things in bird lan- 
guage. Guns are banished. The spirit of killing 
becomes abhorrent. Life grows sacred. 
The catching power of pure horticulture is im- 
mense. One well-designed home sets the fashion, 
until the town becomes notable for beauty. Un- 
fortunately, one gaudy architectural display is 
liable to be mistaken for a true home, and copied as 
a model, until a whole community is artificialized. 
This book has expressed no sympathy with costly 
houses. A home, in any of its evolutions, should 
never express more of expense than of character. 
The thought of money value should be entirely ab- 
sent when you observe a human residence as when 
you observe a well-dressed man or woman. A 
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