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your neighbor, just for the "fun of getting 

 ahead of him." Grow them to prove how much 

 can be done with your f acihties, and to show him, 

 as well as yourself, how much more pleasure 

 and profit he can find in gardening than he has 

 known before. Next year he'll probably show 

 you a thing or two. 



Don't think you have to emigrate to some 

 far-away spot to make a living from the earth. 

 All soil can be made to produce if you use brains 

 as well as labor. Begin where you are, no matter 

 how smaU the plot.' Learn to do it in httle 

 before you try it in large. If you have no plot 

 where you live, try to get the use of a vacant 

 lot in your town or city. Put up a tent and live 

 in it. You and your family will be the better 

 for roughing it a bit. There's lots of fun in 

 camping if you go about it in the right spirit. 



Don't be afraid to ask advice from the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. They are conducting 

 their experiments for your sake, if that's the 

 sort of knowledge you want. If it were not for 

 you and thousands like you, they would not 

 need to discover so many of Nature's secrets. 

 Get the benefit of their discoveries. 



Don't think you can farm without proper 

 tools, any more than a man could print a paper 

 without a printing press. The old-fashioned, 



