PREFACE. 
N 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 
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