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MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

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A BORDER OF HARDY PERENNIALSv


MAKING
HOME PROFITABLE


BY

KATE V. SAINT-MAUR
AUTHOR OF “THE EARTH’S BOUNTY,” ETC.


ILLUSTRATED

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1912

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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

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CONTENTS

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A Profitable Home3
Poultry13
The Sitting Hen and the Incubator29
Raising Early Broilers39
The Poultry Yard in Mid-Season47
July in the Poultry Yard53
A Flock of Turkeys63
Ducks and Geese71
Pigeons and Squabs79
Poultry Ailments87
The Vegetable Garden95
The Hotbed105
How to Grow Asparagus111
How to Grow Mushrooms121
Six Good Vegetables to Grow129
How to Plant and Cultivate Strawberries135
How to Grow Small Fruits
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