MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

A BORDER OF HARDY PERENNIALS

MAKING
HOME PROFITABLE
BY
KATE V. SAINT-MAUR
AUTHOR OF “THE EARTH’S BOUNTY,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1912

Copyright 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
By THE CROWELL PUBLISHING CO.
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Copyright 1912
By STURGIS & WALTON CO.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE
[A Profitable Home]3
[Poultry]13
[The Sitting Hen and the Incubator]29
[Raising Early Broilers]39
[The Poultry Yard in Mid-Season]47
[July in the Poultry Yard]53
[A Flock of Turkeys]63
[Ducks and Geese]71
[Pigeons and Squabs]79
[Poultry Ailments]87
[The Vegetable Garden]95
[The Hotbed]105
[How to Grow Asparagus]111
[How to Grow Mushrooms]121
[Six Good Vegetables to Grow]129
[How to Plant and Cultivate Strawberries]135
[How to Grow Small Fruits]143
[How to Raise Perennial Plants]151
[June Roses]157
[Lavender and Herbs]165
[Growing Watercress]173
[My Experience with Bees]179
[Storing Fruit and Vegetables]187
[Forcing Rhubarb and Asparagus]193
[Raising Pigs]199
[Caring for House Pets]207
[Raising Canaries for Market]217
[The Business Side]223