City Family Finds Living on Two-Acre Farm Much Better Than in New York Apartment By Ed Robinson In "Better Homes and Gardens." a month extra. Eggs were our first project. We started with seven pullets at $11. During eight months those seven hens laid 646 eggs; they cost us 25 cents a dozen against 60 cents in the store. We increased our flock to twenty. A better laying breed, these cut our feed costs about 15 per cent. We now eat four dozen eggs a week. When several neighbors use the Have-More plan, variety can go up while both cost and labor are going down. We traded geese for turkeys, rabbits for pears, broilers and eggs for potatoes. Milk From Goat. In season we had all the fresh v vegetables we could eat In addi-l addi-l tion we canned and froze about 275 quarts for winter use and saved ourselves our-selves about $150 that's $150 over the $22.50 we spent for plowing, seeds, fertilizer and spray. A grade Nubian doe and her two-weeks-old kid, shipped 2,000 miles from one of America's best goat Two years ago we Robinsons lived in a New York apartment. We discovered dis-covered thaf the unadvertised inconveniences incon-veniences outweigh the much-boasted conveniences that living in a large city has to offer. When we had to take a long bus ride to let the baby play outdoors, we began to think seriously about living in the country. What we had in mind was a small place near enough to my job for me to go back and forth every day and yet large enough for us to grow a big part of our own food. We knew nothing about farming but began to read books and pamphlets. Then we moved to a small place near Nor-walk. Nor-walk. Conn., about an hour from my New York office. Our basic idea was to farm for our own use rather than for profit we called it our Have-More plan. When you produce only a few things, you have to sell the surplus at wholesale and buy other things at retail. When you raise a great many different things and use them yourself you are in effect selling at retail. How near have we come to this goal? Today we are producing all our milk and cream, some butter, but-ter, all our eggs, about 120 pounds of chicken a year, over 200 pounds of pork, bacon and ham, plus rabbit, rab-bit, lamb, goose, raspberries, asparagus, as-paragus, and all but a few dollars worth of fresh, canned and frozen vegetables. And we are doing it all in our spare time. We handle it all easily, and I am still able to commute to my New York job five days a week. We get up at six-thirty and I'm home from the office by seven in the evening eve-ning and can work in the garden until nine. Usually we are in bed by ten, but in the canning season we are sometimes busy until midnight. mid-night. Earn Extra $100 a Month. Our figures show that the market value of the food we are producing averages $55 a month above cost. Our expenditures for clothes, doctor bills and other costs have gone down. Instead of our spare time costing money for entertainment, we use it productively. Our payments on the place (which in 20 years will mean ownership) are less than the rent used to be. Add all these savings sav-ings and the total is around $900 a year the equivalent, considering income in-come taxes, of earning nearly $100