tion. Too much green feed is equally injurious to young rabbits during this period. Should digestive troubles result from over-eating either class of food, the bowels may be regulated by bread and milk; and an occasional feed of dandelion leaves will prove beneficial.

Cabbage leaves are not good for young rabbits, and should be fed sparingly to adults kept in hutches. In open runs a larger variety of feed may be used with safety than under hutch management. All dishes should be cleaned and scaled frequently.

The Government uses the following daily rations for goats at the experimental farm at Beltsville, Maryland:

A ration of grain, consisting of 4 parts cracked corn; 4 parts oats; 2 parts bran; 1 part oil meal. This is the average per cent, although it varies in some cases. For roughage, alfalfa is much preferred, but any hay, and even a little corn-fodder is all right. Beets, turnips, carrots, etc.-the sort of stuff there is usually a surplus of in the family garden-chopped up, makes good feed. Of course when on pasture only the milch goats get grain. Never pasture them where there is laurel, as it will kill them to eat it.

An average high-grade goat gives 4 lbs. of milk a day for 10 months of the year. Goats thirty-onethirty-seconds pure bred are eligible to registry. Saanens are preferred to Toggenburgs at Beltsville, although there is little difference, except that the Saanens are perhaps not quite so nervous.

Not much is known about the intensive pig; but one can see at a glance that if pigs are to figure among the livestock of a Garden Home, there must be not only an intensive but an exceedingly sanitary pig. Some years

ago Dr. A. M. Ranck devised an odorless pigpen which received the hearty commendation of the Department of Agriculture during the War, when the movement for home production was at its height. The odorless pigpen was fitted with a 6x6 ft. concrete floor inside, with an outside concrete feeding floor of the same dimensions. The pen was thoroughly screened with mosquito and fly-proof wire. To the feeding floor connected a tile drain to carry off the refuse, this drain being also connected to the bottom of a large wallowing basin to be filled with pure water for the pig's bath. A wooden plug of about 6 inches in diameter was used to stop the outlet in the bottom of this basin; the water-trough at the right of the door inside the pen, being sunk into the concrete floor. A door was constructed in the outside pen so that dirt and refuse could be thrown out with a small shovel.

The pen was so arranged that it could be flushed out every day from an inside tap to which a hose was attached; though buckets of water could be used if there were no hose connections. Ventilation was provided by three doors, opening South, East and West. The house was located within 30 yards of the back of the residence, for convenience in carrying the kitchen waste to the pigs.

The cost of the house was as follows:

The above does not include 36 joints of tile and the labor of putting in the drain. Two pigs weighing 50 and 54 lbs. were placed in the pen and for 120 days an average of 2 quarts of corn a day and from 14 to 40 lbs. of kitchen waste, such as potato parings, the outside leaves of vegetables, scraps from the table, dishwater and skim milk was fed. The pigs gained 142 pounds weight, and were killed for home use.

CHAPTER V

THE BEST TEACHERS- -EXAMPLE AND EXPERIENCE

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HERE is no text-book for the people of a garden

city so good as successful example. The foun

ders of such communities owe it to themselves and to their followers to see that this mode of teaching is provided at the outset of the undertaking.

The ideal demonstrator is the man who has been through the experience himself, for the purpose of satisfying his own hunger for a home-in-a-garden. He must be both believer and practitioner-even a devotee, if you please. He must be possessed by the conviction that of all the jobs a heedless civilization has left undone the biggest and most vital is the job of making it possible for every ambitious, industrious family to insure itself against hunger and want, as prudent men insure themselves against other risks.

Find such a man—there are many to be had, and there will be many more in the future-establish him at the very beginning in a demonstration place fitted to stand as a model for others to emulate, and the standard of a thousand garden homes is set up, just as the flag of our country is raised on the Fourth of July. This is the first constructive step in true community-building. It is worth all the books that could be written. The day will come when such demonstration places will be as

common as public school-houses; and, indeed, they are indispensable to any system of education in a nation of free men.

The ideal demonstrator is a man with a wife who shares with him both the ideals of the garden home, and a comprehensive knowledge of its technique. This is true because this sort of a home is in the highest sense a domestic establishment. I love to think of it as the perfect setting for domestic happiness-this enduring provision for food and shelter in the midst of congenial neighbors. To make it precisely that is the crux of the demonstration.

The final test, the conclusive teaching, comes with experience. The best text-book and the best demonstration can only show the way. There will be varying degrees of success; and there will be disappointments, ranging all the way from partial to total failure. The end to be aimed at is good average success. This largely turns upon the psychology of the community, and that is a matter which depends much upon the quality and spirit of leadership in various departments of the community life.

It has been well said that leadership is never conferred; it is assumed. Happy is the community where it is assumed by the right men and women-by those who deeply realize that the New Earth is to be a holy place, and that the opportunity to assist in its evolution, in a capacity however humble, is a call to holy service.