So there is little to add in this new edition except to reinforce what was not strong enough. In the present jumping market to revise the prices quoted would be absurd, but it may be noted that, as in the prices of 'cowers, the minimum prices are still about correct, but the maximum prices have jumped almost out of sight. Every year there are more and more very wealthy people who will pay nearly any price for the very best. The world seems to be dividing into those who have to count their pennies and those who couldn't count their thousands. Of course, where war has prohibited the importation of the strong bulbs and roots needed for forcing flowers, the prices are about what any one who has any chooses to ask. Monopoly can always get its own price. This New Edition does not attempt to bring prices quoted up to date. In these times not even a stock exchange telegraph ticker can do that. Prices of goods in general have advanced at least 80 per cent. By the day that this book is off the press they may have decreased, or more likely advanced some more. The next day they may slump. Prices of labor advance more slowly and do not slump so fast. Wages of men gardeners have risen perhaps 50 per cent in the last ten years, but women and children have learned to do much of the work. They do the work cheaper because most of them have some one on whom they can partly depend for support. Similarly, when an example of total product given in the earlier edition is still typical and has stood investigation, it is not discarded in favor of a more modern instance. It would have been easy to have revised all the figures, but of little advantage to our readers. For example, it is encouraging to the citizen to know that the average wheat yield per acre has increased more than two bushels since the first edition of this book, but it would not help the garden maker. The increase of possible products tends to counterbalance the increased cost of labor. So only the musty parts have been cut out of the book, which is more needed now than ever. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I: Making a Living--Where and How Chapter II: Present Conditions Chapter III: How To Buy The Farm Chapter IV: Vacant City Lot Cultivation Chapter V: Results To Be Expected Chapter VI: What An Acre May Produce Chapter VII: Some Methods Chapter VIII: The Kitchen Garden Chapter IX: Tools And Equipment Chapter X: Advantages From Capital Chapter XI: Hotbeds And Greenhouses Chapter XII: Other Uses Of Land Chapter XIII: Fruits Chapter XIV: Flowers Chapter XV: Drug Plants Chapter XVI: Novel Live Stock Chapter XVII: Where To Go Chapter XVIII: Clearing The Land Chapter XIX: How To Build Chapter XX: Back To The Land Chapter XXI: Coming Profession For Boys Chapter XXII: The Wood Lot Chapter XXIII: Some Practical Experiments Chapter XXIV: Some Experimental Foods Chapter XXV: Dried Truck Chapter XXVI: Home Cold Pack Canning Chapter XXVII: Retail Cooperation