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Excerpt from Value of a Small Plot of Ground to the Laboring Man: A Study of the Food Raised by Operatives in Southern Cotton-Mill Towns A large acreage of land in the United States can be used for agri cultural purposes which is not generally classed as farm land. This area includes the numberless backyards and small holdings Of less than 3 acres within and close by cities and villages. Much of this land already is being used for raising food for home consumption, but more is lying idle. The importance of utilizing this. Land is obvious. The family raising its food gets it at cost, which, as will be Shown later, represents only actual cash expenditures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.