Ten Acres Enough / A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family

CONTENTS.

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Chapter I.	—City Experiences—Moderate Expectations	9
Chapter II.	—Practical Views—Safety of Investments in Land	15
Chapter III.	—Resolved to go—Escape from Business—Choosing a Location	22
Chapter IV.	—Buying a Farm—Anxiety to sell—Forced to quit	29
Chapter V.	—Making a Purchase—First Impressions	37
Chapter VI.	—Planting a Peach-orchard—How to preserve Peach-trees	42
Chapter VII.	—Planting Raspberries and Strawberries—Tricks of the Nursery	53
Chapter VIII.	—Blackberries—A Remarkable Coincidence	60
Chapter IX.	—The Garden—Female Management—Comforts and Profits	69
Chapter X.	—Cheated in a Cow—A Good and a Bad One—The Saint of the Barnyard	76
Chapter XI.	—A Cloud of Weeds—Great Sales of Plants	86
Chapter XII.	—Pigs and Poultry—Luck and Ill Luck	98
Chapter XIII.	—City and Country Life contrasted	110
Chapter XIV.	—Two Acres in Truck—Revolution in Agriculture	118
Chapter XV.	—Birds, and the Services they Render	131
Chapter XVI.	—Close of my First Year—Its Loss and Gain	141
Chapter XVII.	—My Second Year—Trenching the Garden—Strawberry Profits	148
Chapter XVIII.	—Raspberries—The Lawtons	167
Chapter XIX.	—Liquid Manures—An Illustration	177
Chapter XX.	—My Third Year—Liquid Manure—Three Years’ Results	188
Chapter XXI.	—A Barnyard Manufactory—Land Enough—Faith in Manure	200
Chapter XXII.	—Profits of Fruit-growing—The Trade in Berries	TEN ACRES ENOUGH. Clyx.com