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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1914 
Independence Square 
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 
Philadelphia, Penna. 
It is Pretty Nearly Time to Get the Net 
On This Whole Back-to-the-Land Boom 
“This serial is not the usual rhapsody of the first summer back on the land, with the intelli¬ 
gent city feller as his own hero, beating the country people at their own game. On the con¬ 
trary it aims to show how difficult the country game really is, and what mistakes the 
would-be farmer will fall into. I have had my eye upon country readers too, and am writing 
from their point of view even more than from that of people who are all lit up by books on 
Three Acres and Liberty. What I am after is the truth, indicated by the word net in the 
title.” This is what the author says of his story, BACK TO THE FARM—NET , an unu¬ 
sual serial without a line of love-making in it. It begins in January in The Country Gentleman. 
ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT A DOZEN YEARS FOR A FORTUNE if you can live 
off the fat of the land while you wait? The formula is this: Four fields + pecan trees+ 
hogs + cowpeas = $40 an acre from pork for twelve years, then tons of pecans at fifty cents 
a pound. Figure it out for yourself when you read Pigs, Peas and Pecans, in The Country 
Gentleman. 
MILK IS AN IDEAL FOOD FOR BABIES AND GERMS. The germs thrive on it; the 
babies don’t—if the germs see it first. You can work out your own mathematical formula: 
Clean milk = one healthy baby; or, unclean milk = one sick baby + doctor’s bills + the 
undertaker. We hate to mention the undertaker; but we’d best face him, and keep him out 
of the house — really clean milk will keep him out. Get acquainted with Herr Doctor 
Schlossman’s slogan, Sterben Iceine —none die. It goes deeper into the question of baby life 
saving than you've ever dreamed of. Because Doctor Schlossman’s fact of today in Ger¬ 
many is our dream of a decade hence is no reason why you should not read Milk for the 
Babies, in The Country Gentleman. 
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON is better qualified than any other man in the country to 
write about the problems of negro labor. Big planters take their troubles to him when they 
aren’t getting along right with their black labor; the negroes take their side of the argument 
to the head of the Tuskegee Institute for solution. Because he is the one man to talk intelli¬ 
gently on both sides of this question, so vital to the South, we asked him to write an article 
for us. He tells how not to succeed and then how to succeed in Some Suggestions as to Negro 
Labor, which will be printed in The Country Gentleman. 
THE MAN-WITH-THE-LITTLE-GARDEN is not neglected. Every week we give him a 
page or more devoted to his vegetables, flowers and fruits. But we really are ambitious to 
do more for him. We want to lead him beyond the little garden and show him the promised 
land of the larger place—the neglected farm of twenty acres or so—that means a larger life. 
The business of farming is in its infancy; perhaps it’s the business man who will remove its 
swaddling clothes. If your interest is in a window-box, or a quarter-section of land, you’ll 
find that the Farm Paper of the Farmer’s Business is The Country Gentleman. 
Everything about the BUSINESS of farming you will find in The Country Gentleman, 
the national farm weekly. Five cents the copy, of all newsdealers; $1.50 the year, by mail. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
