The author discusses the possibilities of an acre; where to find idle land; how to select it, clear and cultivate it; the results to be expected; what an acre may produce; methods, tools, equipment, capital, hotbeds and greenhouses; other uses of land; flowers; poultry and novel live stock; and nearly every other imaginable topic of intensive farming in clear, definite statements which are easily verified. It is a practical book from cover to cover.
Cloth. Illustrated. $1.75 net, by mail, $1.88.
By ALLEN FRENCH
A Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs
A Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the Home Garden
This book gives complete directions for growing all vegetables cultivable in the climate of the northern United States. Besides a description of each plant, its habit, value, and use, the book contains detailed cultural directions, covering the soil, planting distances, times for sowing, thinning and transplanting, fertilizing, picking, winter protection, renewal, storage, and management of diseases and pests.
Cloth. 12mo. Illustrated. $1.75 net, by mail, $1.88.
By KATE V. ST. MAUR
A Self-supporting Home
“Each chapter is the detailed account of all the work necessary for one month—in the vegetable garden, among the small fruits, with the fowls, guineas, rabbits, cavies, and in every branch of husbandry to be met with on the small farm.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.