CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



The Self-Supporting Home 3 



Intensive vs. Extensive Culture 6 



The Danger of Undercapitalization 7 



The Consumer Coming Into His Own .... 9 



CHAPTER II 



Money in the Back Yard 10 



How To Make Twenty-four Tomato Plants Hand 



You Fifty Dollars .... 11 



Does Hoeing Pay? Well, Rather! 14 

 What a Garden Did for an Invalid ... .14 



A New Kind of Economy in the Garden . . 16 



Plant Early and Smile at Your Neighbours 16 



The Versatile Hotbed ..... 17 



Growing Plants in a Chicken Brooder . . 18 



Hotbed Results — Without a Hotbed .... 19 



How to Grow Vegetables Before You Plant Them 19 



Modern Success — With Old-fashioned Methods . 21 



Getting Better Seed 21 



The "Best" Potato and How to Obtain It . 22 



It's Never Too Late to Garden .... 23 



A Garden Planted After the Fourth of July 23 



Discovered! The Real Use for a Back Fence . 29 

 One-fifth of a Ton of Tomatoes from 300 Square Feet 



of Ground 31 



Getting Along Without Manure ... 31 



Making Tomato Plants Perennial 33 



Making Your Own Springtime 33 



How to , Double the Cabbage Crop in Yield and 



Quality 33 



