How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital

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Chapter I

The Farm — Remodeling the Farm House — Hygiene — Water Supply — Sewage — Farm Lawn — Animals — The Dairy — Poultry — Bees — Star Gazing 1

Chapter II

Our Birds — Fruit — Insects — Farm Help — Boys' Cabin — Pets — Forestry — Game Preserve — Hedges — Roads — Gutters — Ice — Play Side of Farming — County Fair — Symptoms of Building Mania 35

Chapter III

Evolution of Farmarcadia into Hillcrest Manor, Beginning With the Arboretum — Tree Planting — Anywhere Plants — Wonder Tree — Horticultural Alphabet — Poet's Corner — Pruning — Blue Ribbon Six — Forest Thinning — Maple Sugar Harvest — Bugs and Butterflies— "Yarbs" — Wild Garden — Bogland — Try-out Nursery 77

Chapter IV

Hilltop — Stony Crest — The Gables — Buena Vista — Hillcrest House — Storm King — Stonehenge — Sky Rock — Brier Cliff — Croftleigh House — Cliffmont — Breezemont — Ledges — Drachenfels — Island House — Crossways — Red Towers 105