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GARDEN YARD 



floor; because in such soil plants find all that they 

 need. 



To bring it down to the fine point, the French system 

 consists of manure, more manure, irrigation, availing 

 of every ray of sunlight, and unremitting care. It re- 

 quires three years to get the system in good working 

 order, and here such intensive cultivation seems tm- 

 necessary. It shows what man will do in the way of 

 developing the possibilities of nature, when by law or 

 custom he is debarred from free access to the land, and 

 must needs make a very small portion yield a great return. 



We are not in much danger of Malthus's over-popula- 

 tion, and the much-talked-of "pressure of population." 

 Where so tiny a piece of soil can be made to support so 

 many and give them a good living, too, it is foolish to 

 argue that the cause of poverty is found in the increase 

 of population. This country alone could support many 

 tunes the population of the whole world today if natural 

 opportunities were free. It has been said that 80,000,- 

 000,000 could then be more comfortably supported 

 here than 80,000,000 now are. To find the cause of 

 most of the poverty, and even crime, in the world, we 

 must look beyond the population statistics to the re- 

 strictions and monopolies that prevent population from 

 providing for its own needs from natural sources. And 

 when once you begin to investigate monopolies, you will 

 find the mother of them all — Land Monopoly. 



A new sash for use in hot-beds and cold-frames has 

 been placed on our market within a year or two, for 



