Writings on hygiene and health have been accessible for centuries, but
never before have books and magazines on these subjects been as numerous
as they are today. Most of the information is so general, vague and
indefinite that only a few have the time and patience to read the
thousands of pages necessary to learn what to do to keep well. The truth
is to be found in the archives of medicine, in writings covering a
period of over thirty centuries, but it is rather difficult to find the
grains of truth.
Health is the most valuable of all possessions, for with health one can
attain anything else within reason. A few of the great people of the
world have been sickly, but it takes men and women sound in body and
mind to do the important work. Healthy men and women are a nation’s most
valuable asset.
It is natural to be healthy, but we have wandered so far astray that
disease is the rule and good health the exception. Of course, most
people are well enough to attend to their work, but nearly all are
suffering from some ill, mental or physical, acute or chronic, which
deprives them of a part of their power. The average individual is of
less value to himself, to his family and to society than he could be.
His bad habits, of which he is often not aware, have brought weakness
and disease upon him. These conditions prevent him from doing his best
mentally and physically.

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Wheat is as much a war necessity as ammunition–wheat is a war weapon.
To produce it and distribute it where it is needed and in sufficient
quantities is the most serious food problem of the Allied world. The
continent of Europe, with her devastated fields, can raise but a small
fraction of the wheat she needs, and ships are so few that she cannot
import it from many of the usual sources.Not one of the warring European countries has escaped serious
suffering, and the neutral countries have suffered with them.

Sku: foodguide

After making a production of _Redemption_, the chief feeling of the
producer is one of deep regret that Tolstoi did not make more use of
the theatre as a medium. His was the rare gift of vitalization: the
ability to breathe life into word-people which survives in them so
long as there is any one left to turn up the pages they have made
their abode.In the world of writing, many terms that should be illuminative have
become meaningless. So often has the barren been called “pregnant,”
the chill of death “the breath of life,” the atrophied “pulsating,”
that when we really come upon a work with beating heart we find it
difficult to give it place that has not already been stuffed to
suffocation with misplaced dummies.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR HOPKINS
REDEMPTION
THE POWER OF DARKNESS
FRUITS OF CULTURE

Sku: redemptionand2other

I wish to plant fruit trees on a sandy mesa well protected from winds
about a mile from the coast. The soil is a light sandy loam. I intend to
dig the holes for the trees this fall, each hole the shape of an
inverted cone, about 4 feet deep and 5 feet across, and put a half-load
of rotten stable manure in each hole this fall. The winter’s rains would
wash a large amount of plant food from this manure into the ground. In
March I propose to plant the trees, shoveling the surrounding soil on
top of the manure and giving a copious watering to ensure the compact
settling of the soil about and below the roots. The roots would be about
a foot above the manure.

Contents
Part I.     Fruit Growing
Part II.    Vegetable Growing
Part III.   Grain and Forage Crops
Part IV.  Soils, Irrigation, and Fertilizers
Part V.   Live Stock and Dairy
Part VI.   Feeding Animals
Part VII.  Diseases of Animals
Part VIII. Poultry Keeping
Part IX.   Pests and Diseases of Plants
Part X.    Index

Sku: questionsanswered

Formerly it was the custom for gardeners to invest their labors and
achievements with a mystery and secrecy which might well have
discouraged any amateur from trespassing upon such difficult ground.
“Trade secrets” in either flower or vegetable growing were acquired by
the apprentice only through practice and observation, and in turn
jealously guarded by him until passed on to some younger brother in the
profession. Every garden operation was made to seem a wonderful and
difficult undertaking. Now, all that has changed. In fact the pendulum
has swung, as it usually does, to the other extreme. Often, if you are
a beginner, you have been flatteringly told in print that you could
from the beginning do just as well as the experienced gardener.

CONTENTS

I     INTRODUCTION
II    WHY YOU SHOULD GARDEN
III   REQUISITES OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN
IV  THE PLANTING PLAN
V   IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR USES
VI   MANURES AND FERTILIZERS
VII  THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION
PART TWO–VEGETABLES
VIII  STARTING THE PLANTS
IX    SOWING AND PLANTING
X     THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES
XI    THE VEGETABLES AND THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS
XII   BEST VARIETIES OF THE GARDEN VEGETABLES
XIII   INSECTS AND DISEASE, AND METHODS OF FIGHTING THEM
XIV  HARVESTING AND STORING
PART THREE–FRUITS
XV   THE VARIETIES OF POME AND STONE FRUITS
XVI   PLANTING; CULTIVATION; FILLER CROPS
XVII  PRUNING, SPRAYING, HARVESTING
XVIII BERRIES AND SMALL FRUITS
XIX   A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS
XX    CONCLUSION

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A BOOK OF
Fruits & Flowers.

SHEWING
The Nature and Use of them, either
for Meat or Medicine.
AS ALSO:
To Preserve, Conserve, Candy, and in Wedges,
or Dry them. To make Powders, Civet bagges,
all sorts of Sugar-works, turn’d works in Sugar,
Hollow, or Frutages; and to Pickell them.
_And for Meat._
To make Pyes, Biscat, Maid Dishes, Marchpanes, Leeches,
and Snow, Craknels, Caudels, Cakes, Broths, Fritter-stuffe,
Puddings, Tarts, Syrupes, and Sallets.

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