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GARDEN YARD 



has a little bit of land on which he can raise the 

 most of what the family eats; he may have to 

 work hard, especially if his family cannot help 

 in the work, but at least he is independent; 

 at least panics, lock-outs, change of circimi- 

 stances or even loss of health will not reduce 

 him to starvation. 



If you have a farm. Intensive Cultivation 

 should interest you all the more. Every farm 

 is full of opportunities to make good money; 

 but you must not make the usual mistake of 

 half working a big piece of land; that means 

 that you will always be overworked,^ always 

 have a lot of things that you know ought to be 

 done, but cannot find time to do; always have 

 common grade crops that bring common prices. 

 Everyone that is overworked is underpaid, for 

 he cannot do his best work. 



Use the big fields for pasture, or for raising 

 fine horses, or for pigs or Angora goats or even 

 for sheep; you had better let the fields run wild 

 rather than half cultivate them. 



Keep accounts and watch your chance to 

 sell all the land that does not pay well. 

 It may be that you are missing a fortune 

 in the old neglected orchard, or in the chest- 

 nut or hickory grove. The black walnuts or 

 butternuts, that are usually left for the neigh- 



