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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1911 | 
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for the barn, 30 x 60 for chicken house 
and lot, and the balance for vegetables and 
flowers. 
On the lawn and in the chicken lot we 
have planted fruit trees, instead of purely 
ornamental ones for shade. These give us 
more fruit than we can use, besides being 
just as ornamental at any time as maple, 
elm or oak, and decidedly more so when 
they are loaded with their fragrant blos¬ 
soms. 
In the chicken lot we raise enough 
chickens each year to supply our family of 
four with all the fresh eggs and poultry 
we can eat. The surplus pays for their 
keep each year, so that what we use is pure 
gain. Neither do we deny ourselves of 
either chickens or eggs when we want 
them. Aside from the financial gain is the 
fact that fresh eggs and poultry are more 
nutritious and decidedly more palatable 
than the cold-storage variety. If one cared 
to go in for fancy poultry, the above could 
be supplemented bv the sale of eggs at 
high prices for settings, and of specimen 
birds. The dropping-boards furnish near¬ 
ly all the fertilizer used on the garden plot. 
No one knows the difference between 
vegetables gathered from your own garden 
while the dew is still upon them and those 
gotten from the market except he who has 
tried both. Our garden plot furnishes us 
all the vegetables we use during the entire 
year except the very early fresh vege¬ 
tables. The scope of this article does not 
permit me to go into the methods of in¬ 
tensive culture practiced, and I can only 
say to beginners that the only way to begin 
is to subscribe to the good periodicals on 
this subject and to experiment. Let me 
say in passing that these experiments are 
very fascinating. Of course, one has fail¬ 
ures once in a while, but they only spur on 
to greater endeavors. 
Part of this plot is given over to a straw¬ 
berry bed, other small fruits being planted 
around the edges of the lot. From these 
we can all of the fruit of that kind we can 
possibly use and have a considerable quan¬ 
tity left to sell or to give to our friends. 
The surplus beans, peas, beets, etc., are 
canned for winter use, and are far su¬ 
perior to those purchased at the stores. 
The aesthetic is not neglected, for flower¬ 
ing plants are placed wherever there is 
room for them, even in some instances be¬ 
tween the rows of vegetables. 
We have a small hot-bed and a cold- 
frame. In these, at a trifling cost, we raise 
enough flower and vegetable plants of a 
superior quality to supply all our own 
needs. Many of our neighbors are more 
than willing to take our surplus plants at 
a hi gher price than that asked by the regu¬ 
lar dealer, because they know we buy only 
the very best seeds and they can take the 
plants direct from the propagating bed to 
their own garden, thereby minimizing the 
shock of transplanting. We also raise a 
large portion of our own seeds, a special 
corner of the garden being devoted to that 
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