Making Home Profitable

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint Maur, Kate V. (Kate Vandenhoff), 1866-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Making Home Profitable" by Kate V. Saint Maur is a practical guide written in the early 20th century. The book explores the concept of transforming a traditional home into a self-sustaining and economically viable space, focusing particularly on farming practices that can lead to a profitable household. The author reflects on her own journey from urban living to achieving rural prosperity through poultry and gardening. The opening of the book introduces the author's personal story, detailing her transition from a challenging urban existence to discovering the joys and benefits of rural life. Faced with financial strain, she decides to seek a cheaper home, leading her to embrace the idea of having a house with a garden where she can raise chickens and grow her own vegetables. This segment emphasizes her determination, gradual learning curve in managing a farm, and ultimate success in creating a self-sufficient household, paving the way for the practical lessons she plans to share about home profitability. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

A profitable home

Poultry

The sitting hen and the incubator

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.

Credits:

Produced by Wayne Hamond and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 72.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2019-02-25