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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 facilities, 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 wellaslabor. Begin where you are, no matter 
how small the plot. Learn to do it in little 
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, 
