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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1913 



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Your Grandfather Read It, 



Your Father Read It, 



Are YOU Reading It? 



Buying the Farm 



What would you consider these places adjoining yours worth?" 

 "About $30 an acre." 



"That is, if you, as a local man, went to buy them you could get them at $30 an acre?" 

 "That's it." 



"But if I, as an outsider, went to buy them ." 



"They'd probably size you up as from town, and ask you $80 to $100. I've known two 



or three places on this road where sales have been spoiled that way." 

 Meanwhile they have been in the hands of tenants for thirty years and have gone back in 



value from $150 and $200 to $20 and $30 ." 



"Yes, it's that dog-in-the-manger policy that has hurt us." 



Here is land lying in one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of the section between the 

 Hudson and Connecticut — a valley that used to be the seat of an old colonial aristocracy, where 

 most of the buildings could not be replaced now for less than $20,000 or $30,000. 



If you have the least desire to own a bit of land of your own and think a farm beyond the dreams 

 of avarice, you should read the series of six articles by A. C. Laut, telling about the bargains in old 

 farms, on good roads, within a hundred miles of New York City, that can be picked up at from 

 $10 to $50 an acre. A thousand dollars, actual cash, can finance a 25-acre unimproved farm purchase. 



Dividends From the Farm 



For several years the Department of Agriculture, through 

 its field agents, has been experimenting with various farms, 

 with the owners' cooperation, along the lines of system and 

 efficiency. 



We are able to publish the results in a series of four 

 articles, under the title Old Farms Made New. They 

 tell how to replan a farm for economy in time and labor, as 

 efficiency experts plan a factory. 



The difference is the difference between a deficit and 

 dividends. 



If you actually become your own boss and work at get- 

 ting a living out of the land, there's no paper in the world 

 you need so much as 



A Living From the Farm 



Then, having the farm, if you want to know how to 

 live and to make a living out of it, read Back to the Farm — 



Net, a five-part story of city dwellers who took a chance 

 and made good in the country. 



The Net is what they got out of it — what you can get 

 out of it: Instruction, health, comfort, contentment and a 

 heritage of health for the children. 



The money end of it ? The author paints no iridescent 

 rainbow, but concludes that a good many will succeed along 

 a modest line of hard work, close personal attention, plan- 

 ning one thing at a time and going ahead slowly, being on 

 the job all the year round. A better living than you get in town 

 and a job worth while. 



c me COUNTRY 

 GENTLEMAN 



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