May, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Vv 
be gentleness, and whether she is Holstein 
or Jersey or Ayrshire is a comparatively 
secondary matter. Only this, in picking out 
the cow buy her for milk, and not for 
blood. I mean that you do not so much 
need a high-bred animal as a good milker. 
You will at least have the milk and the 
cream if you do not make butter—and 
perhaps that is the better plan at present. 
Country people never use cream enough. 
Good, fresh, thick cream with a bit of salt 
is better than any butter ever churned. 
About a pig I am not so sure, for 
what will fatten the hog will come from 
what you could otherwise feed the hens. 
My choice is the hens. 
I believe that a rabbit warren is a good 
investment for a small country home. The 
warren need not be more than eight or ten 
feet square, and the occupants will live on 
waste cabbage, clover and any waste garden 
truck—although much cf this might go to 
the cow. 
The hens will prefer dandelions and sor- 
rel; the rabbits will accept clover, and the 
cow will take the slops. Rabbits breed very 
rapidly and fatten easily. I rather wonder 
that more people with small country places 
do not count on this rabbit supply for meat. 
A very small homestead could rely entirely 
upon the henhouse and a rabbit-warren. 
I am showing a way for reducing bills to 
the minimum, while you do not reduce your 
comforts at all. 
With a small field of sweet corn one can 
get a lot of food and pleasure. Our In- 
dian corn is not brought to its best by any 
means in American families. Indian meal 
is readily obtained from half an acre of 
field corn; you can do it just as well with 
what is left of your sweet corn after eating 
the boiling ears. There are excellent sorts 
that give you two or three ears to the 
stalk, and will supply your table through 
July, August and September. This will re- 
quire three or four successive plantings. 
from the last of April to the first of July. 
Late in September cut the corn, and save 
the best ears for some old-fashioned samp. 
This is made by drying the ears around 
the stove and grinding coarsely. Sift out 
the fine meal, and cook the coarse remain- 
der all day. Indian meal cakes and Indian 
meal bread are sturdy substitutes for 
wheat, but if you have three or four acres 
give one half an acre to wheat, and not be 
obliged to buy flour. 
Now we have the problem of sweeten- 
ing, and no American family will be satis- 
fied without plenty of sugar. You ought to 
have a few maple trees, and when you have, 
tap them carefully in the Spring, and learn 
how to make maple-sugar. Ten to twenty 
trees will be enough, if they stand out in the 
open, to give about fifty pounds of sugar 
annually. This can be stored in stone crocks, 
and be in use all Summer. If in addition 
you have, as you should have at once, four 
or five hives of bees, and the second year 
about ten or twelve hives, you will get all 
the honey that you can use, directly or in- 
directly, including a lot of sweetening for 
pies, and considerable vinegar from the 
waste. Then you will have at least fifty 
pounds the first year for sale, and from a 
dozen hives you will sell at least five hun- 
dred pounds a year, without stinting the 
home supply. 
With meal, honey, eggs, cream, Indian- 
bread and berries you have a home-made 
dinner and a home-made supper, except, 
possibly, the wheaten bread—which, possi- 
bly, one may learn to leave out. With a 
broiled chicken once a week, and rabbit or 
bacon twice a week, you will have only 
your fish to obtain for a luxurious supply 
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