PREFACE 10 
use your judgment and common sense, in one 
season you will be able to teach most of those 
whom you now have to hire as expert Gardeners 
at Three Dollars a Day. 
If anybody sneers at your gardening as being 
“book farming,” let him sneer; a fool never 
understands what a wise man is doing: if he 
did, he would do it himself. You have here the 
plain, simple, practical facts without scientific 
terms—just the ordinary garden talk. There 
are plenty of things you will not find in this 
book. You won’t find analyses of fertilizers, 
nor how to grow “pomatoes,” or anything else 
that won’t sell when you have grown it. Nor 
will you find fairy stories of poultry profits that 
make the goose’s golden eggs look like thirty 
cents. ‘There is a use for all that sort of thing— 
it arouses interest and stimulates the imagina- 
tion. But you will probably be content to be 
a good, practical, every-day gardener who can 
make things grow and knows what to do with 
them after they have grown. 
Some critics, who will not read this book, 
will sagely remark that such books as Mr. Hall’s 
are dangerous, because they induce inexperi- 
enced persons to sell out and lose their money 
trying to get Liberty on Three Acres or a Living 
from a Little Land. To repeat for such people 
