Chapter II 



WHY YOU SHOULD GARDEN 



THERE are more reasons to-day than ever be- 

 fore why the owner of a small place should 

 have his, or her, own vegetable garden. The 

 days of home weaving, home cheese-making, home 

 meat-packing, are gone. With a thousand and one 

 other things that used to be made or done at home, 

 they have left the fireside and followed the factory 

 chimney. These things could be turned over to 

 machinery. The growing of vegetables cannot be 

 so disposed of. Garden tools have been improved, 

 but they are still the same old one-man affairs — 

 doing one thing, one row at a time. Labor is still 

 the big factor — and that, taken in combination 

 with the cost of transporting and handling such 

 perishable stufif as garden produce, explains why 

 the home gardener can grow his own vegetables at 

 less expense than he can buy them. That is a good 

 fact to remember. 



But after all, I doubt if most of us will look at 

 the matter only after consulting the columns of the 



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