Making Home Profitable. Kate V. Saint Maur

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664647870

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       ILLUSTRATIONS

       MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

       MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

       A PROFITABLE HOME

       POULTRY

       THE SITTING HEN AND THE INCUBATOR

       THE SELECTION OF THE INCUBATOR

       THE CARE OF THE CHICKS IN THE BROODER

       HOW TO DIVERSIFY THE DAILY RATION

       RAISING EARLY BROILERS

       THE POULTRY-YARD IN MID-SEASON

       JULY IN THE POULTRY-YARD

       A FLOCK OF TURKEYS

       DUCKS AND GEESE

       PIGEONS AND SQUABS

       POULTRY AILMENTS

       THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

       THE HOTBED

       HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS

       HOW TO GROW MUSHROOMS

       SIX GOOD VEGETABLES TO GROW

       HOW TO PLANT AND CULTIVATE STRAWBERRIES

       HOW TO GROW SMALL FRUITS

       HOW TO RAISE PERENNIAL PLANTS

       JUNE ROSES

       LAVENDER AND HERBS

       GROWING WATERCRESS

       MY EXPERIENCE WITH BEES

       STORING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

       FORCING RHUBARB AND ASPARAGUS

       RAISING PIGS

       CARING FOR HOUSE PETS

       RAISING CANARIES FOR MARKET

       THE BUSINESS SIDE

ILLUSTRATIONS

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MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

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MAKING HOME PROFITABLE

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A PROFITABLE HOME

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      It is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous business venture made it necessary to curtail expenses. Rent being an especially heavy item, the hunt for a cheaper habitation commenced. Toiling up and down innumerable stuffy staircases in tow of slatternly janitors revealed the fact that cheap flats were either over-crowded barracks redolent of dirty soapsuds and stale cooking, or overdecorated cubbyholes where children were tabooed. Evening after