PREFACE. 



AN intensive farm is only an enlarged 

 /A garden patch. 



This book is not intended as a scientific 

 book on agriculture ; there are many such books 

 which are out of the depths of everyone ex- 

 cept professors and professionals. In a nice 

 experiment station, nice experiments and scien- 

 tific calculations are excellent; but I want to 

 give the plain man or woman who has a back 

 yard or back lot, out of which he might make 

 part of a living or more than a living, a book 

 that will show how to do it. 



I want to help the man or woman who has to 

 do the cultivation at odd times and who finds 

 it hard to get the time for the work, even though 

 this work enables him to do far more work of 

 other kinds. I have had all sorts of experience 

 with gardening, in spite of telegrams and people 

 who want " just five minutes for some important 

 business." So if you have the same trouble 

 getting the time, do not let that discourage you. 

 We can get health, happiness and some profit 

 in spite of the interruptions. 



It won't be enough simply to read this book; 

 that won't make you a gardener; but if you 

 study it while you are working on the land and 



