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Homesteading
Three Acres and Liberty
Bolton Hall
295 pages~5 hr 53 min read35 chapters$1.99
Three acres, worked intensively, can free a family from wage slavery. Bolton Hall's influential manifesto shows how to buy a small farm, make a living from little land, and even garden vacant city lots. Practical, radical, and hopeful, it fueled the back-to-the-land dream. Claim your patch of ground and your independence with it.
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35 chapters
- 1THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY
- 2BOLTON HALL
- 3AUTHOR OF "THINGS AS THEY ARE," "THRIFT," ETC.
- 4REVISED EDITION
- 5FOREWORD
- 6TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 7Chapter 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 Chapter XXVIII: Summer Colonies For City People
- 8CHAPTER I MAKING A LIVING—WHERE AND HOW
- 9CHAPTER II PRESENT CONDITIONS
- 10CHAPTER III HOW TO BUY THE FARM
- 11CHAPTER IV VACANT CITY LOT CULTIVATION
- 12CHAPTER V RESULTS TO BE EXPECTED.
- 13CHAPTER VI WHAT AN ACRE MAY PRODUCE
- 14CHAPTER VII SOME METHODS
- 15CHAPTER VIII THE KITCHEN GARDEN
- 16CHAPTER IX TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT—SPECIALIZED CROPS
- 17CHAPTER X THE ADVANTAGES FROM CAPITAL
- 18CHAPTER XI HOTBEDS AND GREENHOUSES
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