How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital
A first-person handbook on buying, building and improving American country property, written by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer from thirty-five years of amateur farming and published by Orange Judd in New York in 1914 for prospective suburban and rural homeowners. The plates are halftone snapshots of shingled and stone houses, barns, driveways and plantings, often gridded many-to-a-page with hand-lettered captions, useful for photo-collage layouts and period real-estate vernacular.
